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Strongyli Kittens, Portfolio I

April 20, 2014 /

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Out of Santorini

By Doris Athanassakis

Strongyli Kittens I
Strongyli Kittens I

 

Doris Athanassakis

Note: This portfolio of ten Black & White images represents the first  offering of works by photographer Doris Athanassakis at Weekly Hubris. Athanassakis lives in Imerovigli,  a caldera-side village on the volcanic island of  Santorini. Of Greek and Austrian heritage, Athanassakis has been photographing her island home, its architecture, and its myriad residents, all her life, and her work comprises an ongoing and lifelong meditation upon her stunningly unique surroundings . . . and herself in them. (All Athanassakis’ works are for sale, in limited edition archival prints: please contact her regarding gallery sales through her Weekly Hubris email address: athanassakis@gmx.at.)

GREECE—(Weekly Hubris)—4/21/2014—

 

Strongyli Kittens II
Strongyli Kittens II
Strongyli Kittens III
Strongyli Kittens III

 

Strongyli Kittens IV
Strongyli Kittens IV

 

Strongyli Kittens V
Strongyli Kittens V

 

Strongyli Kittens VI
Strongyli Kittens VI

 

Strongyli Kittens VII
Strongyli Kittens VII

 

Strongyli Kittens VIII
Strongyli Kittens VIII
Strongyli Kittens IX
Strongyli Kittens IX
Strongyli Kittens X
Strongyli Kittens X

 

Doris Athanassakis, up until 2013 a world-renowned Santorini restaurateur, changed course in mid-life and now devotes her time to photographing her beloved island and working as a body-work therapist (massage, Chinese Medicine, Shiatsu, Reflexology, aromatherapy, and other healing modalities) on Santorini and in Athens. A multi-multi-lingual, and multi-cultural bi-national (Greek and Austrian), Athanassakis spends part of the year in each of her homelands, but returns in the spring to the light and line of Santorini, the Cycladic island which is her abiding inspiration. Readers and viewers, please, please respect Doris’s Copyright to her photographs, and do not share her work on Facebook or use for other purposes without the photographer’s explicit permission and/or without including the specific Hubris link. Of course, feel free to “like” her columns, but remember that this photographer needs to be compensated for her remarkable work. If you fall in love with an image, buy a print, please. (Author Head Shot Augment: René Laanen.)

4 Comments

  • Elizabeth Boleman-Herring

    April 20, 2014 at 5:01 pm

    From your publisher, a very warm welcome aboard, Doris! Your fellow contributors will also soon be discovering, and appreciating, your presence among us: we’re flung all across the globe, but are still a warm little community (despite geography) of writers, poets, painters, and photographers, among many other things. Kalos Irthateh kai Kalo Pascha, Doris! Love, Elizabeth

  • Ted Balk

    April 21, 2014 at 7:55 am

    Doris, welcome to our ongoing effort to further the cause of beauty, art, and literacy in the world. Your photographs are a wonderful addition. I look forward to many more such contributions!
    Ted