by Haris Vekris When for over 20 years you rummage around cellars, convenience stores, and souvenir shops looking for small ouzo bottles for your collection; when you take your finds and photograph them, record them, classify them and, in recent years, post them on your website, you’ve seen it all: aesthetically offensive, transparent bottles with…
narrative: Charis Vekris photography: Eleftheria Papadopoulou photo editing: Michalis Richter Guess! How many ouzo brands feature a number on their label? One? Two, max? Wrong guess! A quick search through the collection of tsou.gr shows a respectable number of distilleries using as part of their brand name on their label numbers whose gamut is reminiscent…
Chios has been on my to-go travel list for years. Growing up on Syros, I had the feeling that there are “blood” ties linking the residents of the island of Syros and those on the island of Chios. My father would often work on ships owned by Chios shipowners and steered by Chios sea captains…