I was taking pictures in the centre in an abandoned building near this guy's shop. He popped out of his place and politely asked me what I was doing and after I had explained I asked if I could take his picture.
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Created splicing the genes from Martin Parr and Bruce Gilden.
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I was just about to leave the Byzantine museum when a coach pulled up and these priests and their goon squad strolled out. Four no-neck besuited guys with shaved heads and the kind of body language that screams, "f@ck you".
It turned out they were protecting Kimon Nikiforos, a cleric from Cyprus. I mentioned this to a friend who lives there and apparently it is a status thing. The bigger the goon squad the the higher up the pecking order you are.
The students were protesting lack of funding for the Fine Arts department of the university of Thessaloniki near Kamara today.
Zorro had to leave his horse at home and adopt his daytime persona, Panayiotis Psomidis, mild mannered council leader.
Even by the turbulent standards of Greek education the previous week has been unprecedented. Once again many of the country's major universities have been occupied by students protesting plans by the government to permit the founding of private universities and the general lack of funding for the state sector higher education. In addition university elections have been halted sometimes with violent confrontations between different political factions.
Elections for the dean of faculties in universities across Greece lead to a number of violent episodes. In the Greek port town of Patra students clashed with riot police and a number of cars were set on fire. In Thessaloniki similar clashes between riot police and students were reported. On Wednesday the dean of the Aristotelian university of Thessaloniki, Anastasios Manthos was hospitalised after heated debate with student turned violent. The following days a gang of 30 attacked and severely beat two night watchmen on the university campus.
The conservative New Democracy government is seeking to change the country's constitution in order to allow the setting up of private universities so bring Greece in line with EU law. In addition they argue that such universities could led to an improvement to Greece's chronically ailing state run higher education sector. It should be noted that just two Greek universities made the Times Higher Education QS rankings top 400 at position 248 and 356.
On the other hand opposition politicians and students argue that long term lack of funding for education in general has hampered the country's universities and that what is needed is an overhaul of the system to bring it in line with European standards.
The protests come at a time of growing dissatisfaction with the government of Kostas Karamanlis whose administration has been involved with a number of sexual and financial scandals since its re-election in 2007. In addition rising food and petrol prices have caused hardship amongst those on low incomes. Many accuse the government of negligence over its inability to curb the spiralling cost of living which has seen many basic goods rise five times greater than in other European countries.
www.nowpublic.com/world/greek-universities-turmoil
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In scene redolent of the 60s a group of 20 demonstrators entered a supermarket in the Exarxeia neighbourhood of Athens, Greece filled up shopping trolleys and left without paying. Afterwards the food was distributed in a street market nearby. The group also handed out leaflet protesting rising food prices.
The protests come at a time of growing dissatisfaction with the
government of Kostas Karamanlis whose administration has been involved with a number of sexual and financial scandals since its re-election in 2007. In addition rising food and petrol prices have caused hardship amongst those on low incomes and a general climate of discontent.
Many accuse the government of negligence over its inability to curb the spiralling cost of living which has seen price hikes in the cost of basic goods five times greater than in other European countries .
NowPublic.com
In scene redolent of the 60s a group of 20 demonstrators entered a supermarket in the Exarxeia neighbourhood of Athens, Greece filled up shopping trolleys and left without paying. Afterwards the food was distributed in a street market nearby. The group also handed out leaflet protesting rising food prices.
The protests come at a time of growing dissatisfaction with the government of Kostas Karamanlis whose administration has been involved with a number of sexual and financial scandals since its re-election in 2007.
In addition rising food and petrol prices have caused hardship amongst those on low incomes and a general climate of discontent. Many accuse the government of negligence over its inability to curb the spiralling cost of living which has seen price hikes in the cost of basic goods five times greater than in other European countries .
I was taking pictures of cacti(?) for somebody's catalogue when I grabbed the chance to take this picture of Lydia modelling the flowers before she ran off outside to play with her friend, Anastasia.
When I woke I could have sworn I was Man Ray. Luckily, Lee Miller told me to snap out of it.
