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Where’s the Gamos?

540 min read

All the years I traveled around rural Greece, I searched for stories that described the daily life. Tales of meeting and photographing farmers, shepherds and bakers unfolded. Stories too of bouzouki bar nights and looking for abandoned villages high
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by Beatrice Hamblett

So Young

229 min read

I stop by Mitsos and Konstandina’s house in Aliveri to find the front door wide open. No one responds to my call: “Yeia sou! Yeia sou!” Then Konstandina appears ambling across the side lot through the weeds with her skirt tied up, lugging a big bag
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by Beatrice Hamblett

Finding Aliveri

554 min read

All summer long in 2018, the Roma camp on Skopelos Island was full of visitors. Every week another family arrived for a 7-10 day stay—aunts, uncles, cousins, tons of kids. Lots and lots of people I could photograph. But as the summer of 2019
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by Beatrice Hamblett

Woman or Girl

231 min read

Making photos, I often say to my models, soferi—serious, no smiles. I am prospecting for dreams and desires in the face of every child. Who is the real Magda percolating inside a nine-year-old child-body? The smile, unless natural and joyful, can
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by Beatrice Hamblett

So Rich

319 min read

Ring, ring. “Ela koukla mou.” Come, have a coffee, says Mitsos. New visitors have arrived at the campsite.A large group I’ve never seen before fills Mitsos’s “front door” of their basement home. A rotund gypsy, a xadelfos, cousin, surrounded by an
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by Beatrice Hamblett

Where’s the Gamos?

540 min read

All the years I traveled around rural Greece, I searched for stories that described the daily life. Tales of meeting and photographing farmers, shepherds and bakers unfolded. Stories too of bouzouki bar nights and looking for abandoned villages high

Read More
by Beatrice Hamblett

So Young

229 min read

I stop by Mitsos and Konstandina’s house in Aliveri to find the front door wide open. No one responds to my call: “Yeia sou! Yeia sou!” Then Konstandina appears ambling across the side lot through the weeds with her skirt tied up, lugging a big bag

Read More
by Beatrice Hamblett

Finding Aliveri

554 min read

All summer long in 2018, the Roma camp on Skopelos Island was full of visitors. Every week another family arrived for a 7-10 day stay—aunts, uncles, cousins, tons of kids. Lots and lots of people I could photograph. But as the summer of 2019

Read More
by Beatrice Hamblett

Woman or Girl

231 min read

Making photos, I often say to my models, soferi—serious, no smiles. I am prospecting for dreams and desires in the face of every child. Who is the real Magda percolating inside a nine-year-old child-body? The smile, unless natural and joyful, can

Read More
by Beatrice Hamblett

So Rich

319 min read

Ring, ring. “Ela koukla mou.” Come, have a coffee, says Mitsos. New visitors have arrived at the campsite.A large group I’ve never seen before fills Mitsos’s “front door” of their basement home. A rotund gypsy, a xadelfos, cousin, surrounded by an

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by Beatrice Hamblett

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Where’s the Gamos?

540 min read

All the years I traveled around rural Greece, I searched for stories that described the daily life. Tales of meeting and photographing farmers, shepherds and bakers unfolded. Stories too of bouzouki bar nights and looking for abandoned villages high

Read More
by Beatrice Hamblett

So Young

229 min read

I stop by Mitsos and Konstandina’s house in Aliveri to find the front door wide open. No one responds to my call: “Yeia sou! Yeia sou!” Then Konstandina appears ambling across the side lot through the weeds with her skirt tied up, lugging a big bag

Read More
by Beatrice Hamblett

Finding Aliveri

554 min read

All summer long in 2018, the Roma camp on Skopelos Island was full of visitors. Every week another family arrived for a 7-10 day stay—aunts, uncles, cousins, tons of kids. Lots and lots of people I could photograph. But as the summer of 2019

Read More
by Beatrice Hamblett

Woman or Girl

231 min read

Making photos, I often say to my models, soferi—serious, no smiles. I am prospecting for dreams and desires in the face of every child. Who is the real Magda percolating inside a nine-year-old child-body? The smile, unless natural and joyful, can

Read More
by Beatrice Hamblett

So Rich

319 min read

Ring, ring. “Ela koukla mou.” Come, have a coffee, says Mitsos. New visitors have arrived at the campsite.A large group I’ve never seen before fills Mitsos’s “front door” of their basement home. A rotund gypsy, a xadelfos, cousin, surrounded by an

Read More
by Beatrice Hamblett

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