When Lockdown Rules Reach Mountain Meadows
For the shepherds of the Greek Pindus mountains, work never ceases – pandemic or not; yet even this small, isolated community has been rocked by the lockdown. Photographs and video by Myrto ...
Myrto Papadopoulou
Final works on the pier for the safe docking of a ship – for an unknown period – in Piraeus port
Piraeus Port
Normally, this period ships should be crowded with passengers. All this period they were only transferring patients from the islands and goods
Two passengers ready to board one of the ships to Crete at Piraeus port
“I’m scared about the economy. Everything else sounds like terrorism to me. I have been in this port for 46 years. When you see others feeling down, you start feeling low too”
Nikolas Fortesanakis, Food Truck Owner
“Much of the shipping activity has now stopped. Nobody know what will happen”
Marinos Vergakis, Seaman
“We are doing the last works on the ship, until we know when we can sail again”
Marinos Vergakis, Seaman
“We are all afraid of the future. Many employees have been fired, as we speak. Luckily, I'm all right”
Marinos Vergakis, Seaman
“I come from Syria. I travelled to Greece to visit my daughter, but now I'm stuck because of the coronavirus. I don't know when I'll be able to go back”
Zahira Maen, Visitor
“I'm only worried about my children”
Markos – Mattheos Voutsinos/ Driver
“I like to think that this whole thing is nothing but a bad dream”
Markos – Mattheos Voutsinos/ Driver
“I have two lorries and only operate one of the two at the moment. Luckily transports from and to Crete have not stopped”
Stelios Manolidakis/ Driver
“I am scared of getting sick and afraid of the future”
Mosharef Parvez, Kiosk owner
“We have burnt our hands. The psychological pressure is greater now”
Metushi Vana – Tsewova Zhika – Giannakis Alekos, Athens’ Public Transport Organisation (OASA) Cleaners
“My children are worried about me being here everyday”
Nikos Stathoulis, Butcher at the Central Market (Varvakios)
“Right now, our role is to act as mediators between our reality and that of their own”
Panagiotis Michos & Efraimia Michou, Volunteers
“The people we stop in the street often support us, offering wipes and masks. It's moving”
Vasiliki Iatroudi, Traffic warden
“I take a bath every Friday”
Yousef Danesh, Refugee – Homeless – Mathematician
“We are more cautious; we keep washing our uniforms and gloves and this is something that we weren’t doing as often in the past”
Ioannis Perdikas & Kalliroe Haskou, DIAS Unit Police Officers
“The psychological burden is big for us too”
Ioannis Perdikas & Kalliroe Haskou, DIAS Unit Police Officers
“Now we are driving through an empty city that has no life”
Thodoros Kepeleris, Athens Public Transport Organisation (OASA) bus driver
“Life doesn’t end here; we move on”
Thodoros Kepeleris, Athens Public Transport Organisation (OASA) bus driver
