His documentation of Greece’s economic and refugee crises has been stellar
via Time: https://time.com/4098158/angelos-tzortzinis-wire-photographer-2015-time/
His documentation of Greece’s economic and refugee crises has been stellar
Thousands of migrants and refugees remain stranded after the historic influx
via TIME.com: https://time.com/refugees-migrants-stranded-in-greece/
He was among thousands stranded at a squalid encampment there since officials in Macedonia, the focus of Issa’s gaze, had closed the crossing before his family could soldier on the well-trodden path through the Balkans into Western Europe and Scandinavia. When Issa climbed down, he met the photographer Angelos Tzortzinis. “He sees the future on the tree,” Tzortzinis recalls.
Angelos Tzortzinis has spent the last 5 years, focusing his work on the immigration issue in Greece, traveling across the Greek land and sea borders but also documenting the immigrants’ lives in Athens and their efforts to leave a country undergoing a severe economic crisis. Tzortzinis work have been published and exhibited internationally
See a humbling, intense meditation on the fragility of social cohesion
via Time: http://time.com/3767465/see-inside-austerity-hit-greece/
It is this Greece that photographer Angelos Tzortzinis set out to capture. Over the course of six years, he has documented the effects of austerity measures in his native country, one he says he no longer recognizes.
Link: Angelos Tzortzinis: Exposing the Prostitution and Drug Crisis in Athens « The Leica Camera
my shooting is very limited and I can understand that I have taken the right image for me. I can’t explain this emotion, but this is very important for me. When I was still a student at the Leica Academy, I started taking photos with a 28 mm lens from that point on.
In Greece, the perils of a drawn-out debt crisis are imprinted on its younger population — whose unemployment numbers are soaring — who turn to selling their bodies for money and to a dangerous, cheap new street drug for escape.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/societal-ills-spike-in-crisis-stricken-greece/
For Mr. Tzortzinis, who grew up in the area, seeing women give themselves for as little as 5 euros underscores one of the many horrors of Greece’s drawn-out crisis.
Link: Visa pour l’image 2012: La Grèce – AFP | Le Journal de la Photographie
Louisa Gouliamaki, Angelos Tzortzinis and Aris Messinis, Greek photographers in the Athens bureau, worked in relay, providing daily coverage of politics and social unrest in the country