Stories

"Working Class Heros"

A trip to Cuba and the documentation of the people and the jobs they do. Differences and similarities compared to their counterparts in the Western world.

"Football United"

"Football United" as an idea was born in Idomeni in March 2016. Thousands of people, mostly from the countries of the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, had created a makeshift camp at the border between Greece and North Macedonia, trying to cross in order to continue their journey to the rest of Europe.

The discomfort I felt during the first days I was there, trying to capture with my camera what was happening, was overwhelming. My discomfort was broken through football. An informal match had been set up in the fields of Idomeni, and the player missing from one of the teams was to be me. I didn't speak the same language as any of my teammates, but I was able to communicate with all of them just fine.

"Nest"

Inspired by the bird's nests. The "nests" of the migrants in Serbia, as they waited to find a way to cross these borders as well.

"Normal Saline"

Dedicated to my grandfather. Dedicated to the man who taugh me what love is and how to love somenone.
Special thanks to the uncles and cousins, my family's doctors for their help and interest. I know that they are stand by any time.

"Abandoned ships" wandering lives

In 2016, the migration crisis in Greece had reached its peak. The waves of migrants trying to cross the Aegean Sea from the shores of Turkey to the Greek islands were enormous. Lesbos was one of the islands that, during that period, was at the center of migration.

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"Moria's Bakery"

Moria. A small village on the island of Lesvos where in recent years it has become known throughout Europe as one of the most difficult places for a person to live. Thousands of lives of migrants and refugees are being housed in the "hospitality" camp set up there in the old camp. Next to the village with the few inhabitants to experience its difficulties.

"AREA 88"

The reasons that draw each of us towards the camera and image creation may be similar, or they may be completely different. However, these two situations have a common denominator. Photography waits for no one.

A portrait that I left pending, influenced by a procrastination stemming from the certainty that nothing is likely to change in the immediate future.

"Open Veins"

The title of the project is inspired by the book of the author, journalist, and poet Eduardo Galeano, The Open Veins of Latin America. Through the pages of the book, the history of the peoples of Latin America unfolds, from the beginning of colonization to 1976, when the book was written. Along with the stories and the historical facts, images were born in my imagination. The images of those people, the hunted and the oppressed natives by the "superior" Westerners.

RIDE AΘENS

Through a series of 49 photographs, Spyros Bakalis’s exhibition titled “RIDE AΘENS” is presenting portraits of urban cyclists on the streets of Athens.