Mavk's Photostash

As long as I remember myself, I was curious about how the world works. Gradually as I’ve learned more I appreciated the power of visual communication in providing food for thought regarding those questions. Growing up in Greece was also an eye opening experience as I understood what behaviors based on lust for money and power can do to society and the environment. I hope some of the images here may serve as my testimony of our times, while others for nothing more than the pure joy of pushing the shutter.

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Someone called, “Media? Subject, come!”

Subject was shivering from the cold next to the entrance of central Athens metro station. Ambulances, medicines, state absent, few volunteers.

S. was standing nearby. Mood: smiling he asks no photographs. Father still in Damascus, jailed, as the universal hand sign of busted convened.

 His hands next flash a ring, two names on it. He says wife. Interruption. Young for a wife. Eleven-seven, hand count to seventeen. Habibi he offers instead. Where is habibi? Silence. The universal hand sign of getting shot in the head.

S. is still in Athens with his mother. He wants to go to Alemania. Uncle. The whole European Union as we know it in his way. Mood: Smiling.

Images @Demotix News http://www.demotix.com/…/syrian-refugees-hold-third-day-hun…

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"June's full moon, called the honey moon it is the one most likely to glow yellow throughout the night." — at ZOO | bar-cafe

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Pure Wild Nights

Camping, fire, full moon, Full moon illuminates our camping site on a more or less unexplored shore in N. Evoia Isl. Greece

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Watch the weather change.

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Turkish riot police storm Gezi Park in Istanbul

1. People run as riot police fires a water cannon on Gezi Park protesters at Taksim Square in Istanbul June 15, 2013. (Osman Orsal/Reuters)

2. Riot police fires a water cannon on Gezi Park protesters at Taksim Square in Istanbul June 15, 2013. (Osman Orsal/Reuters)

3. People run as riot police fires a water cannon on Gezi Park protesters at Taksim Square in Istanbul June 15, 2013. (Murad Sezer/Reuters)

4. Protesters try to resist the advance of riot police in Gezi Park in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, June 15, 2013. (Vadim Ghirda/AP)

5. A riot policeman orders protesters to evacuate Gezi Park near Istanbul’s Taksim Square June 15, 2013. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)

6. A protester reacts as police throw tear gas among tents during an operation to evacuate the Gezi Park of Taksim Square in Istanbul, Saturday, June 15, 2013. (Thanassis Stavrakis/AP)

7. A child suffering from tear gas inhalation is carried by a protester at the basement of a hotel where protesters took shelter next to Gezi park near Istanbul’s Taksim Square June 15, 2013. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)

8. Protesters are attacked by police water cannon next to Gezi Park near Istanbul’s Taksim square June 15, 2013. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)

9. An injured protester is helped in the basement of a hotel where protesters took shelter next to Gezi park near Istanbul’s Taksim square June 15, 2013. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)

10. Protesters bring stones to make a barricade after a police operation that evacuated the Gezi Park in Istanbul, Saturday, June 15, 2013. (Thanassis Stavrakis/AP)

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Στη τελική το story είναι: ξυπνάς ένα πρωί σαν κι αυτο και κάποιος έχοντας δει ένα όνειρο σε στελνει on air στο δρόμο βρίζοντας. Και δεν τον σταματάει τιποτα. Αυτό έχει όνομα. Καλήμερα, η #ΕRT ακόμα εκπέμπει.

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Beltane Fire Festival Photograph by Jim Richardson, National Geographic Beltane or Beltain is the Gaelic May Day festival  It marked the beginning of summer and was when cattle were driven out to the summer pastures. Rituals were performed to protect the cattle, crops and people, and to encourage growth. Special bonfires were kindled, and their flames, smoke and ashes were deemed to have protective powers. The people and their cattle would walk around the bonfire, or between two bonfires, and sometimes leap over flames or embers. All household fires would be doused and then re-lit from the Beltane bonfire.  Doors, windows, byres and the cattle themselves would be decorated with yellow May flowers, perhaps because they evoked fire. In parts of Ireland, people would make a May Bush; a thorn bush decorated with flowers, ribbons and bright shells. Holy wells were also visited, while Beltane dew was thought to bring beauty and maintain youthfulness. Many of these customs were part of May Day or Midsummer festivals in other parts of Great Britain and Europe.

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Beatquick at six d.o.g.s

28 March · Taken at Six D.O.G.S

All Beatquick Crew Live in one night Elephant Phinix, Kill Emil, J. Melik, Billa Qause, Pad Trio, Mononone 

28/03/2013

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Μια μικρή νίκη: Σήμερα καταχωρήθηκαν ως προστατευόμενα στην Διεθνές Εμπόριο των Ειδών της Άγριας Πανίδας στο συνέδριο CITES που διοργανώνεται στη Ταϊλάνδη τα Manta Rays και 3 είδη καρχαρία. Απο ολα τα είδη σαλαχιών τα Manta Rays είναι τα μεγαλύτερα, ίσως τα ομορφότερα και σίγουρα τα πιο ευάλωτα. Η συχνότητα με την οποία αναπαράγονται, η καταστροφή των κοραλλιογενών υφάλων και η καινούργια αγορά των βραγχιακων πλακών τους ως τονωτικό (!) στην Κίνα τα έχει οδηγήσει στα όρια της εξαφάνισης. more: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/03/sharks-and-manta-rays-earn-stronger-international-protection/

Photo: " A manta ray glides over a boy in Lisbon Aquarium"

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An Oak circle standing in the middle of, ruined by 2007 wildfires Parnitha Natural Reserve, Attica Greece 

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Sun gives its last rays on Mt Penteli, melting the first snow on 08/01/2013 East Attica, Greece 

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This day, conveniently placed four days after Winter Solstice, is been known for centuries now as the birthday of Christ.  Whether true or not, the fact is that the sun is disinterestedly getting stronger, dispatching its first rays on 25/12/2012 at Schoinias, Greece

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“Every day is Judgement Day. Always has been. Always will be.” Στο μεταξύ, οι θερμοδυναμικές και κοσμολογικες δυνάμεις που αποτελούν τη βαση του "χρόνου" ακολουθούν ευθυμα τη σπειροειδή πορεία τους χωρις κανένα ιδιαίτερο προορισμό. Απλώς περιστρέφονται. Και ξαναπεριστρεφονται. Η ταξη επεκτείνεται για να γινει αταξία και συστέλλεται ξανά για να ξαναγίνει τάξη, με ενα ρυθμό τοσο απίστευτα αργό, που μας προκαλεί ανία και σύγχυση, σε εναν τέτοιο βαθμό, που να αναγκαζόμαστε να επινοούμε κάποιο τερματισμό μέσα στη ψυχή μας για αυτές τις ατέρμονες διαδικασίες.  ― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

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Christmess spirit 

A homeless man begs for help next to a Christmas decorated shop in central Athens, Greece. 14/12/2012

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Look up ! 

"Late summer nights laying out alone or with friends were the moments our lives took on idealized direction- goals and ambitions took root while wide eyed at the lights in the sky. We didn’t know it, but the crazy talk and thoughts wild with no limit in that big sky were our dreams forming."  "...the sight of the stars makes me dream..." Photo story on 500px by Ben Canales  http://500px.com/BenCanales/stories/64047

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Free Way, 1937, by Dorothea Lange

This photograph shows two men walking down a dirt road, carrying luggage, passing a billboard that reads, “NEXT TIME TRY THE TRAIN RELAX Southern Pacific.” Approximately 2.5 million people abandoned their homes in the South and the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression years. It is doubtful that any of them had enough money to buy a ticket on the Southern Pacific and relax.

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A small fishing boat waiting by Trichonida Lake, the largest natural, near Agrinio Greece