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GREECE INSIDE ME

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GREECE INSIDE ME

Greek influencers from different areas of the creative sphere give us a personal glimpse of their very own Greece and talk about the future of this unique land.
the code magazine Greece article

KIMON FRANGAKIS

A pretty girl but not too girly. Born in the centre of the ancient city of Athens. Raised with fish from Messolonghi, meat from Naxos and Parisian croissants. In this smartphone shot from the summer, a pitch black kerchief shades her clever head. I like the look of an old lady’s headscarf on a serious looking little miss sunshine. This piece of black cloth is both Doric and oriental, or quintessentially Greek.
Lying on her tummy she reads mythology, finding answers to all of life’s big questions, humming pop tunes as she turns the pages.
The scene unfolds on a pristine beach of Kalymnos – or perhaps Nisyros – maybe not quite pristine. She is my daughter Margot, whom I love dearly. Forever in my heart and mind not as a baby who needs baby talk, but as a young woman, proud and unique. Just like the Greece I cherish.
What will the future hold for girl and country and everybody else? Who can tell. I believe my daughter will flourish abroad, following a centuries old Greek tradition.  As for our homeland, I am quite certain: things can only get better, after things get worse.
www.andro.gr, Ladies Run

ELENI PSYCHOULI

On the break of the collapse of the Otoman rulership in the 19th century, a French diplomat had come to study the people of the Balkans. In the book he wrote after many years of studying the tangled mess of the Balkans, he wrote about the Greeks: “They are not a race, but an idea. You are not born Greek, you become one by choice. And ideas never die, they are only reborn from their ashes”. In the times we are living, I find solace in his words and believe that hope will come if each and every one of us decides in his heart that yes, we are Greeks!
Writer, TV presenter, www.topirouni.gr

the code magazine Greece article
the code magazine Greece article

COSTAS AVGOULIS

To me it is all about perspective. Once we realize that you need to clear your vision and start focusing on the boundaries between black and white, all this gray that has come upon us will instantly disappear, it will simply fade away. Photographer

CREDITS

Words:
Eleni Papaioannou

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