Athens

"There are at least one million illegal immigrants in Athens" somebody told me. Indeed, it looked like a massive slum. Dried and poor, and vigorous and vulgar. Excessive traffic and dust. I liked it immidiately. As all of poor places which tries to look posh or such seems ridiculous and funny at the same time, this city was not an exception. This city was like a plain plant that has grown too much and already gone out of control, but no spell of rotting.
I walked around the areas like Omonia and Gazi again and again, immigrants ghetto and another chaos, Gaudy make-ups upon desolation. That was my impression on Athens. As i had a camera, I tried to construct a city by photos collecting fragments of moments of life into an album indicating how people civilize and live. I shot within a month. shooting was not easy, because everybody was criminal there so that, immigrants, restaurant staffs, and police are hiding away from the camera, or hissing at me or grab me, but some are flatterd. I enjoyed a lot.

Athens 2009