Cyprus: Elements
For the last four years I’ve been making a photographic project about Cyprus. It’s now initially available as an e-book, for all tablets, via Amazon, link below. Here's a few photographs from the book. There’s work contains images from every part of the island, including those occupied by Turkey since the invasion of 1974. I went out at dawn on the first day of the hunt, photographed the grape harvest near Kathikas. I spent time in Karpass and met and photographed members of the enclaved community. I spent time with the UN, photographed the families of the missing and the funerals of lost ones recently recovered. Alongside this artists like Nikos Kouroussis, the inspiring activist Anastasia Papadopoulou, leaders such as Stella Kyriakides and young entrepreneurs like Theo Middleton. It was a privilege and an education to have the chance to meet so many extraordinary people on this beautiful island, so I share it with you now. Book is available in Cyprus or as an electronic version here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/CYPR.../dp/B08M9V9Y4P/ref=sr_1_1...
Savvas Liasis, one of the Enclaved, Karpass. The Enclaved are a small group of Greek Cypriots, who remained in the Occupied Area of Cyprus after the Turkish invasion of 1974. They have lived much- or all- of their lives under illegal occupation.
Savvas Liasis, one of the Enclaved, Karpass. The Enclaved are a small group of Greek Cypriots, who remained in the Occupied Area of Cyprus after the Turkish invasion of 1974. They have lived much- or all- of their lives under illegal occupation.
Daphne Nicola Ktori, one of the Enclaved, Karpass.
Elli Tryfonos, mother of conscript Marios Tryfonos. He was serving in the Mortar Platoon of the 256 Infantry Battalion Support Company, in 1974. His body has not yet been found. Edit 5Daphne Alexander and 4 others
Elli Tryfonos, mother of conscript Marios Tryfonos. He was serving in the Mortar Platoon of the 256 Infantry Battalion Support Company, in 1974. His body has not yet been found.
Popi Chrysostomou, photographed at the Tymvos Makedonitissas Cemetery in Nicosia. Popi helped lead the UN Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus. (CMP)
Funeral of Missing Person, Nicosia. The purpose of the CMP is to recover, identify, and return to their families the remains of 2001 persons (1,508 Greek Cypriots and 493 Turkish Cypriots) who went missing during the inter-communal fighting of 1963 to 1964 and the events of 1974. The lost are still being found.
The ancient chapel within the monastery at Apostolos Andreas, Occupied Cyprus, which is tended here by a member of the Enclaved Community.
Akamas is a protected area of outstanding natural beauty.
First Day of the Hunt
Grapes being harvested at Vasilikon Winery, Kathikas.
The London Diaspora is significant.
This dress is by the famous Cypriot Designer Erotokritos, who’s now based in Paris. Modelled by actress Martha Constantinou, in the monastery at Kalopanayiotis.
Father Theotokis, Episkopio Church
Near Kyrenia
Limassol
Limassol Port, Cyprus.
Paphos District
The UN Green Line divides the island, marking the extent of the Turkish Occupation of Cyprus. It cuts through Nicosia, the last divided capital in the world.
Nicosia
Cape Greco
Village Fair
Despina Bebedeli, Actress. Edit
Michalis Pasiardis, Poet
Andreas Paraschos, Journalist
