Free Falling

Rocks, Athens, Greece, July 2012

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Desolate building in Athinas str, downtown Athens, Greece, June 2012. Businesses going bankrupt is an everyday affair. The city is now full of empty offices and stores for rent.

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Industrial building at Athinon 40, Athens, Greece, April 2012. Greece’s industry is weak and has remained an underperforming economic sector for years. Empty factories are scattered across Greece, creating unemployment that reaches untill now the scary 27% of the active population.

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Hellenic Halyvourgia, Aspropyrgos Industrial Zone, Athens, April 2012. The administration of the Greek Coal-Steel industry (Hellenic Halyvourgia) decided to reduce working hours and cut salaries in an effort to counterbalance losses generated by the economic crisis. In October 2011, 36 lay-offs were announced with a view of firing another 180 workers, leading to a solidarity strike that lasted 272 days (ending July 26th, 2012), the longest strike ever recorded in Greek history.

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Hotel Acropol, downtown Athens, Greece, July 2012.The last three years have closed 25 hotels in Athens, leaving many people unemployed and main buildings in complete abandonment.

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Neo–fascist flyers blaming the immigrants for the country’s high unemployment rates, Syntagma square, Athens, Greece, March 2012

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The outdoor Sunday Flea market in the neighborhood of Gazi, downtown Athens, Greece, March 2012. At the Sunday fleamarket hundreds of people, mainly waste pickers, excluded from the main economic market gather here to exchange, sell or buy cheap second hand goods.

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Centre of Athens, Greece, March 2012. One of the 115 breadlines in Athens. Poverty and destitution spreading in the city, due to economic crisis

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Military parade, Panepistimiou str, Athens, Greece, March 2012. This year’s March 25th National parade became yet another target of public anger. As a result, it was almost outnumbered by the police force ordered to protect the parading military.

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Syntagma Square, Athens, Greece, April 2012. A 77-year-old pensioner committed suicide in Syntagma Square with a handgun just meters away from the Greek Parliament in despair over his financial debts. A few hours later hundreds arrive to pay their respects.

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Gathering of people in a fiesta organized by Greek and immigrant community groups in the square of Saint Panteleimon church, downtown Atens, Greece, February 2009. Immigrants in Greece face public hostility amid growing unemployment and poverty. The government has launched a major crackdown on illegal immigrants with hundreds of police deployed in sweeps of immigrants’ neighborhoods.

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Gathering of people in a fiesta organized by Greek and immigrant community groups in the square of Saint Panteleimon church, downtown Atens, Greece, February 2009. The square is now a stronghold of the neo-fascist party Golden Dawn and is currently a no-go zone for the hundreds of immigrants living in the neighborhood, mainly because of the violence against them.

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