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Off-Off-Season on Syros
“Winters on the Greek islands are undeniably brutal, and not something prospective visitors will see pictured in the sunny travel brochures. So, when you have experienced the off-off-season in Greece for decades, and…
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Yellow: My Firefly in a Bottle Color
“I remember being visually arrested by what seemed like a wave of bright chrome yellow, back-lit by my beloved Greek blue and lit by a sun so bright that I had to squint…
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A Farewell to Donkeys
“Growing up on the island of Mykonos in the 1960s, my brother and I were the only blond and blue-eyed children in sight. In fact, we were among the very first foreigners to…
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Women in Graffiti
“Is street graffiti . . . art? And how representative of the world’s artists is graffiti? One of the most omnipresent types of public expression, graffiti is usually seen on walls, though the…
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Milatos, Crete: A Wintry Portfolio
“I did not visit Samaria this time around, but instead spent three weeks closer to the east coast of the island in a very sleepy village called Milatos, located between Iraklion and Aghios…
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Wintry, Indelible Syros
“A photographer at heart, I am recording moments of this journey: I need to be able to come back to this when it’s all in my rear-view mirror. For me, photography extends an…
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An Ode to Roses
“Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) composed a constellation of riddle poems that we are meant to solve, but one of them was freighted with such ecstasy that the poet just could not help herself: she…
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Letting Go of Donkeys
“Growing up on the island of Mykonos in the 1960s, my brother and I were the only blond and blue-eyed children in sight. In fact, we were among the very first foreigners to…
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Beloved “Abroad,” Past & Future
“This little Pandemic Portfolio features long-beloved countries (and great cities) I would have wanted to move to if 1/20/21 had somehow failed to play out the way it did.”—Chiara-Sophia Coyle Clicks & Relativity…
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Oakland’s Voices-Made-Murals
“Recent events have largely silenced photographer Chiara-Sophia Coyle, but they haven’t stopped her from seeing, documenting, and reporting back to us what is going up on the walls of her ‘hood’ in Oakland,…