Athènes 2015

<p>  </p> <p> Detailed presentation of the project </p> <p>  </p> <p> While a humanitarian crises is currently affecting Greece, I have decided to immerse myself in the Greek society through three middle class families and to realise a photographical work on today’s daily life in Athens, more than a hundred days after Syriza’s election. </p> <p> In a time where 180 000 small and <a href="#" id="_GPLITA_3" title="Click to Continue &gt; by cinemapro1-2">medium<img src="http://cdncache-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png"></a> sizes businesses have been shut down since 2010, while 60% of the youth is unemployed, families tend to concentrate and live in the same shelter due to shrinking financial means. </p> <p> How can one pay the loan of an apartment bought at a time where banks were lending at unbeatable rates; how can one access health services after the loss of employment and therefore of medical insurance…</p> <p> <img alt="14-1427118043" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/176938/14-1427118043.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> In the light of this humanitarian crises, Bruxelles has just granted Greece with an exceptional aid fund of 2 billion euros. What will be the outcomes of the latter on daily life? During 3 weeks, before this summer, I will be living in Athens.</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="23-1427118066" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/176939/23-1427118066.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> I will follow, amongst others, Helene, Costas and their 3 children. Along 180 000 SMBs since the crises began, Costas has had to shut down his aluminium business. He has since, thanks to relatives and friends’ support, been able to open a tavern in the Neos Cosmos neighbourhood of Athens. He does not earn a living for now, his wife works alongside him, and he faces on a daily basis pressure from creditors. His house is split into three different levels and is shared with his parents, his brother and his own family.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="08-1427118092" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/176940/08-1427118092.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> I will follow two other families as well.</p> <p>  </p> <p> An exhibition will take place in Paris at Le Point Ephemere, in September 2015.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Point_eph_m_re-1427301392" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/178079/Point_Eph_m_re-1427301392.jpeg">Le Point Ephémère</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p>