Greece is a country that most people either love or hate.
Ι can understand both.
At the same time, there's this special category of foreigners that
seriously fall in love with Greece...
...and can't go back home anymore.
Such one is Charles Weber.
His work "speaks" greek better than many Greeks do and thanks to him, images from my early childhood that hardly exist now more in the back of my mind, will never be lost.
Charles Weber captured the real face of everyday people next door before Greece discovered... aerobics, Armani and botox.
His images not only seem to but do come from another century. Nevertheless, there's just three decades between us and the 1980s during which radically changed not only the way of living and thinking in Greece but also the physiognomy of Greeks.
Charles Weber's work was recently exhibited at the Benaki Museum, divided into different groups, which, through the complex relationships between people, objects and places, record the images that inspired him in everyday Greek life over the past thirty years.
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