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Strongyli Kittens, Portfolio II

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Out of Santorini

By Doris Athanassakis

Doris Athanassakis

Note: This portfolio of eleven Black & White images represents the second 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’s works are for sale, in limited edition archival prints: please contact her regarding gallery sales through her Weekly Hubris email address: athanassakis@gmx.at.)

IMEROVIGLI, Santorini, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—5/19/2014—

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Strongyli Kittens XI
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Strongyli Kittens XII
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Strongyli Kittens XIII
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Strongyli Kittens XIV
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Strongyli Kittens XV
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Strongyli Kittens XVI
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Strongyli Kittens XVII
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Strongyli Kittens XVIII
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Strongyli Kittens XIX
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Strongyli Kittens XX
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Strongyli Kittens XXI

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

  • diana

    May 19, 2014 at 8:16 am

    Lovely work, beautifully observed. Up to now I’ve associated you with photos of our editor doing yoga in impossible settings.

  • Doris Athanassakis

    May 19, 2014 at 12:26 pm

    Thank you very much for your nice words! Oh, I love taking photos of people AND cats :)!!

  • Elizabeth Boleman-Herring

    May 19, 2014 at 2:16 pm

    Whenever things are really tough, Doris, I look at Strongyli Kitten XX–I have an actual print, you know–and think of kittens on the endless stairs of the caldera, steps that are a challenge even for long-legged homo sapiens. Those little animals are true survivors. So beautiful and so strong.