Athens Photo Festival 2009

Esplanade Building, Faliron Olympic Complex – Athens, Greece.

The Athens Photo Festival is a continuation of the International Photography Month in Athens, an event with a 20 year history that was the major and oldest Greek institution with large scale events focusing on the art of photography. This year’s event will include participations by over 200 artists from Greece and abroad, with exhibitions in over 30 exhibition spaces throughout the city of Athens.

Κτίριο Πεζογέφυρας Εσπλανάδα, Ολυμπιακός Πόλος Φαλήρου.

Η διοργάνωση του Athens Photo Festival είναι η συνέχεια του Διεθνούς Μήνα Φωτογραφίας στην Αθήνα και συγκαταλέγεται ως ένα από τα σημαντικότερα και ταυτόχρονα είναι ένα από τα πέντε παλαιότερα φωτογραφικά φεστιβάλ στον κόσμο. Το πρόγραμμα της φετινής διοργάνωσης καλύπτει ένα ευρύ φάσμα δράσεων με κριτήριο την ποιότητα και την ποικιλομορφία που περιλαμβάνει ένα σύνολο 34 ατομικών και ομαδικών εκθέσεων και 17 video installation projects, με τη συμμετοχή 280 καλλιτεχνών από την Ελλάδα και τη διεθνή φωτογραφική σκηνή, Photo Folio Review, ημερίδες φωτογραφίας, εκπαιδευτικά προγράμματα, διαλέξεις, διαγωνισμούς και άλλες παράλληλες δράσεις.

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© 2009 Jordan Kevrekidis

Canadair CL-415

A Hellenic Air Force Canadair CL-415 over Athens, Greece.

The Bombardier 415 (Canadair CL-415) is a Canadian amphibious aircraft purpose-built as a water bomber. It is the only aircraft designed and built specifically for aerial firefighting and is based on the company's CL-215 flying boat.

More aircraft images at: Kevrekidis Photography

© 2009 Jordan Kevrekidis

AS332 Super Puma helicopter

18 October, 2009.

Super Puma helicopter of the Hellenic Air Force, on a Search and Rescue (SAR - ASR) mission over the Evian Gulf, Greece.

The Eurocopter (Aerospatiale) AS332 Super Puma is a four bladed, twin engine utility helicopter marketed for both civil and military use. The AS 332 C1 is the Search and Rescue version, equipped with search radar and six stretchers.

More aircraft images at: Kevrekidis Photography

© 2009 Jordan Kevrekidis

Eternal Olive

Athens – Greece.

Olea Europaea or Olive tree (from Greek word elaion).

It was purely a matter of local pride that the Athenians claimed that the olive first grew in Athens. In an archaic Athenian foundation myth, Goddess Athena won the patronship of Athens from Poseidon with the gift of the olive. The olive was sacred to Athena and appeared on the Athenian coinage.
An olive tree in west Athens, named "Plato's Olive Tree", was rumored to be a remnant of the grove within which Plato's Academy was situated, which would date it to approximately 2,400 years ago.

In ancient Greece, athletes ritually rubbed olive oil all over their bodies. At the original Olympic Games, more than 2,500 years ago, an olive wreath was the sole tangible reward offered to champion athletes. In the case of the chariot races, the wreath went to the owner of the winning team of horses. Olive branches were chosen because of the tree's association with the Greek god, Zeus. A sacred olive tree was said to have grown near his spectacular temple in ancient Olympia.

Olive oil has been more than mere food to the peoples of the Mediterranean. It has been medicinal and magical, an endless source of fascination and wonder and the fountain of great wealth and power.

See also: Kevrekidis Photography

© 2009 Jordan Kevrekidis

Δημήτρης Μητροπάνος

Αθήνα, 10 Σεπτεμβρίου 2009.

Ο Δημήτρης Μητροπάνος στο Ωδείο Ηρώδου Αττικού, χθες βράδυ.

Athens, Greece - September 10, 2009.

Popular Greek singer, Dimitris Mitropanos at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, last night.

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© 2009 Jordan Kevrekidis - © 2009 Ιορδάνης Κεβρεκίδης