AGON

[2011-13]
Video, Photography, Documentary

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In June 2011 I landed in Athens to cover the general strike.
Since 2009 Greece had been facing the worst economic crisis since the Second World War. Austerity measures implemented by the government to obtain bailout loans from the International Monetary Found and European Central Bank were bringing the population to its knees. The demonstration ended up in violent clashes with the police.

I went back one year later, it was election season.
An economic crisis, protests, poverty, unemployment,
the emergence of an ultra right wing party all colluded with the police,
these were all the ingredients of a social-economic crisis that could have brought Greece back to a dangerous past and the Euro zone to collapse.

#Mediterranean Sea #Migrants #Greek crisis

"One day a great man will pass through Greece, […] and through his own stories of personal suffering in Greece he will bring a message of hope and awareness"
Yasser

Credits
A project originally by Loris Savino and Marco Di Noia
Photos and video: Marco Di Noia
Editing assistant and translation to English by Nadia Davila-Pestana
Music by ▲DuNaH▲ and Signo
Translation from Arabic by Maysun El Targhi
♥ to Eleni, Yasser and everyone who helped

Publication
FOG Magazine, Issue n° 2 (2015)

Yasser is a 5 min interview to one of the characters of Agon.