Aesthetics of Crisis

05/01/2026

First hot take of 2026 from the streets of Athens: "Venezuela will be the new Vietnam of American imperialists"

02/03/2025

"United despite our wounds"

An incredibly striking photograph of Iftar amid the rubble in Gaza. The graffiti reads "Ramadan unites us, despite our wounds" (right) and "We in Gaza are fasting on your pain" (left).

01/03/2025

From scenic buff to Free Palestine, from notes on gentrification to no-border graffiti—a few favorites from the 290 photographs that I added to the archive from my January 2025 visit!

You can browse the whole lot at https://flickr.com/search/?user_id=92903356%40N04&sort=date-taken-desc&text=athens+2025&view_all=1

01/03/2025

The streets of Athens, painted with a million bodies on the second anniversary of the Tempi rail disaster.

Αυτή ήταν η μεγαλειώδης συγκέντρωση που αφότου επιχείρησαν να αποκρύψουν απαγορεύοντας τα drones, στη συνέχεια επιχείρησαν να διαλύσουν...

08/01/2025

Ephemerality has its own ways in Athens. Upon my latest visit to the city, I came across the remnants of two classic crisis pieces that had somehow evaded my eyes during recent photo walks: the "No Future" pasteup by ScarOne and the "Keep Out" stencil by WD, both in Exarcheia. The side-by-side photographs below are taken almost exactly 12 years apart.

21/09/2024

The corner of Patission and Gladstonos, where Zak Kostopoulos/Zackie Oh was murdered 6 years ago today, has for many years been the site of a habitual choreography of urban memory. Q***r activists have perpetually asserted their collective claim to the street—and with it, the city—by renaming it in Zackie's name and memory, over and over, against the currents of erasure and forgetting.

I have documented the changing face of this street corner numerous times since 2020. When adding the most recent capture from this summer to my Flickr archive, I made an immensely joyful discovery: Zackie Oh street is real—on Open Street Maps! May the knowledge of this translation, however small, of a street-level intervention to a formal geographical designation also bring you some joy and hope on this day.

28/07/2024

It has taken me some time, but I finally added the photographs I captured in Athens at the beginning of the year to my Flickr archive. Here are some favorites from the batch, with Palestine and migrant solidarity front and center—and always much to learn in and from the streets.

More to come soon, in the meantime you can browse my entire 7000+ photo archive of Athens at https://www.flickr.com/photos/aestheticsofcrisis/

22/05/2024

10/07/2023

Fresh from the streets of Exarcheia: Tourists, enjoy your stay in the cimetery [sic] of Europe (Pylos 14.6.2023)"

📷: Ivana De Innocentis

19/06/2023

"Tourists, enjoy your cruise in Europe's biggest migrant's cemetery": Graffiti and protest banners in response to the Pylos shipwreck from the streets of Athens, Piraeus, and Thessaloniki