I have been (as maybe I mentioned a few times on this site before) involved in a continuing long term project, photographing and archiving the ancient and wonderful city of Athens, where we live.
Over the years this project; I loosely call it “Photowalks with Cassi” since it is in the company of my wife that the two of us shoot; has taken on many individual threads in various directions. This new set is yet another such branch. It has always fascinated me how Mediterranean countries seem to have their own special light and the atmospheric norms of these countries has led to some interesting colour choices in their architecture. Athens is particularly colourful in certain areas. It is in homage to this fact that I have decided to create a mini series looking more closely at the wonderful colours of this city.
As a first set for this below is a small gallery shot in the last days of 2025 and the first week of 2026. More, possibly much more to come.
At this juncture I would like to add a little note of a more serious nature.
I am fully and painfully aware of how wrong our world has gone over the last decade or two. In my anguish and despair about the rise of fascism, genocide, political divisiveness, institutional lies and obfuscation, the absolutely disgusting return of extreme right wing activism and the mad rise of attacks on and undermining of basic human rights by so called democracies around the world, and perhaps worst of all the normalisation of cruelty and systemic racial and gender oppression; I have only been able to find some little measure of sanity in continuing to do my personal photography. Perhaps in a way I am trying to organise reality in ways that I can manage and make sense of.
I am old enough to know that what this project represents is not world shattering in its potential to cure the ills of our time. The most that can be said about an effort such as this is that maybe, just maybe, it can make one or two people think about the beauty of our world and find some kind of meaning in that beauty. If one is truly lucky then perhaps those people would be encouraged to reflect on where their prejudices, or the propaganda they are fed have led them astray, and have them reevaluate and find their humanity once more.
High hopes I know, but one can dream. One can dream that art can truly combat and defeat evil.
Shot on the Nikon D700, Nikkor 35mm ƒ/2 at ISO 320 (mostly).