moments

September 25, 2008 @ 2:17 pm

Her profile cut through the smokey darkness and magnetized my glare. My moment came… I introduced myself, her name was Myrcinni. Her eyes solid beads of tigereye, her nose elegantly Greek. Her tits beautiful and small. Her hair trimmed in the front and arousingly crazy everywhere else. She drank black rum. We talked. We drank. We left together. I didn’t know where we were going, I didn’t ask. I listened, she told me of her pain. In the light of the moon beside the sea I could see her despair. I cared. We came to her street, she asked me if I’d like to come up. I did. The street cats watched us. She rolled a joint of hash and tobacco. We smoked on her balcony and watched the stars. I held my breath and we locked lips. I let me breath out into her and she pulled it in. Our lips stayed locked and she exhaled into me. back and forth we shared the same breath, each time a shorter grasp of air until we separated… panting heavily. She asked me if I wanted to stay the night. Yes. We shared her toothbrush. Next to her I slept calm and deep. In the morning I massaged the stress from her back. She asked me if I was going to photograph her… I wanted to and I did. We went to breakfast. we smiled. we had to say goodbye. She said maybe we’ll see each other again. I looked at her and I knew that moment had come to an end.

missed the boat…

September 24, 2008 @ 2:56 pm

Britton and I wanted to go to Turkey for the day but there was a boat strike and B is going back to California tomorrow so instead we decided to shoot in the sea for fun.

Erresos

September 21, 2008 @ 3:07 pm

We took a road trip to Eressou birth place of Sappho and now days, its a lesbian retreat. We met Bandit and Sarai at a party where they were performing. We got to spend some quality time with them. Visit their MySpace page and check out their tunes:

http://www.myspace.com/nopcmusic

and their website:
http://www.opctown.com/

here are some party pix from the night:

choices

September 20, 2008 @ 11:59 am

Chris and I spent the day with Osman Mohammed (in above picture), Abdula Joseph, Osman Ali Adam, Abdifatah Rashiid, Kamil Ahmed, Ali Hussen and Dayib Adulgadir. Refugees originally from Somalia. Their journey to Athens took 2 years; working and migrating through Yemen, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Turkey before seeking asylum in the EU. Since Greece was their country of entry their chances of being able to live anywhere else in Europe is slim. Chris asked Dayib (who learnt English washing cars and spoke with great proficiency) what he would do with unlimited financial resources, his only answer was “to not be here” in Greece where the culture in general displayed an immense hostility towards them, especially the police.

It was quite an amazing juxtaposition for me to work with these courageous men in the cradle of western civilization and to then hear news of unregulated free market capitalism debauchery and a $700,000,000,000 corporate bailout.

nightlife

September 19, 2008 @ 8:00 am

We had just finished dinner with Lavina and her friends. Chris spotted a young man with punk style listening to an MP3 player. Asked him what he was listening to… and before I knew it they were listening to each other MP3″s (Chris had an ipod). The young man’s name was John. He was hanging with his friends…. 18, left home. Spends his nights on the streets and sleeps during the day. Chris and John talked… I photographed his friend.

We kicked it with John and his friends for a good 2 to 3 hours. He told us about the Neo Nazi scene, the politics of the police, and the challenges he faced. I showed him some of the grafitti I had photographed and he recognized one of the pieces as the work of one of his friends and showed us another one of his works:

visit him if you like:

http://www.myspace.com/romvos77streetpunk

teamwork

September 18, 2008 @ 8:27 am

Chris Jones just arrived in Athens… now with him and my sister (two of my favorite people) we’re gonna get some work done… then off to Lesvos to install our show.

head?

September 17, 2008 @ 10:57 am

had to try a sheep’s head Greek style. have to say, cool experience. meat in the cheek bone was the best… the eyes were tough to swallow. I could have chowed down more of the brains if I had a little salt and pepper.

plus some pix from the meat market.

Athen’s street works

@ 7:37 am

Dirty. Loud. Awful street smells, riot police patrolling the night streets. Refugee problem out of control. Man snorts heroin in front of me. Couple sit embraced in catatonic state. This was Omonia Square. And on the walls between the Acropolis and this place of despair, street works stood stronger than the ruins of what was once the Western frontier.

here are a few interesting works and to see more… visit the photoblog and enter keyword: graffiti.

in athens

September 16, 2008 @ 1:30 pm

Arrived in Athens. Spent the day walking around, getting a feel for the city. Loving the heat compared to London. Here are a few images from the day… To see more, search keyword “Athens” in the photoblog

market sensibility

September 13, 2008 @ 2:16 pm

Just spent a couple hours down Portobello Market with my sister. We decided to meet some charming well dressed Market shoppers.

enjoy:

plus a few pix from the day (captured by Lavina)

Tiger

September 7, 2008 @ 6:19 pm

camouflaged and no where to hide but in your face.
check out my boy Tiger’s stripes….

enjoy: