A gap

Posted on September 28, 2018 by Iakovos Hatzistavrou

Χωρίς να το καταλάβω, ο καιρός πέρασε (όπως εύκολα γίνεται χωρίς να το σκεφτείς)
Όλον αυτόν τον καιρό,
σχεδόν ένα χρόνο από τον Ιούλιο του 17 μέχρι και σήμερα,
μπήκα σε διαδικασίες διαφορετικές από ότι ήξερα και είχα συνηθίσει να κάνω.

Στην σκέψη μου για τα πράγματα,
στην διάθεση μου απέναντι στην εικόνα,
στην στάση μου απέναντι στην ζωή,
όλα αυτά τα γιατί-κάνω-αυτό-που κάνω….

τον λόγο.

Έτσι είπα να δοκιμάσω κάτι διαφορετικό,
να δοκιμάσω άλλα σχήματα
να το πω διαφορετικά και μέσα από αισθητικά γνωρίσματα λογοτεχνικών κινημάτων
να αφήσω τη ματιά να παίξει

Without realizing it, the time passed (so easily done without thinking about it)
All this time, almost a year from July 17 until today,

I went into procedures different from what I knew and I was used to doing.
In my thoughts about things,
my attitude towards the image,
my attitude towards life,
all the things, why-I-do-what-I-do……..

the reason

So I said to try something different,

to try other shapes
to say it differently and through aesthetic features of literary movements
to let the look playing

The graffiti says: my country is my childhood

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July 2017 Cyprus-Athens

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Iakovos Hatzistavrou

Aglantazz 2017

Moments

The 43nd anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in the military cemetery in Nicosia with the graves of Greek and Cypriot soldiers killed in the 1974 from the Turkish invasion of Cyprus on July 19, 2017.

Athens, Greece:

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June 2017 in Cyprus

Posted on July 3, 2017 by Iakovos Hatzistavrou

June 2017 in Cyprus

A picture taken in NICOSIA showing an old man sitting in his shop

A picture taken on Ledra street shows an old woman selling icons to passers-by.

A picture taken in NICOSIA showing an old lady sitting out of a shop

A picture taken in the old neighborhood of NICOSIA close to square of “No”. The food canteen is located just below a shop where its plateau writes: “Phoebus Satan” :)

A picture taken in NICOSIA showing an man sitting in his balcony.

A picture taken in NICOSIA showing a young boy sitting in his window

This picture shows the orthodox hagiography of “Pantokrator” in the church of Panagia Feneromenis in the old city of Nicosia. This hagiography type of Jesus Christ is unique shows the “old of days”, the father of everything

Turkish-Cypriot and Greek-Cypriot protestors hold banners during a demonstration outside the UN-controlled buffer zone in the Cypriot capital Nicosia on June 28, 2017, calling for the unification of the Mediterranean island after the Cypriot President warned of a possible impasse in talks to reunify the ethnically divided island.

Pyla village is located in the eastern part of the islandi in Larnaca district and located within UNFICYP Buffer zone where Greek Cypriots and Tourkish Cypriots living in harmony together.

Turkish-Cypriots at a Turkish-community cafe in Pyla, a village still inhabited by both its original Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot community, located in the United Nations Buffer in CYPRUS, on June 27, 2017.

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MAY 2017 in Cyprus

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Iakovos Hatzistavrou

Without words I’ll start a small photographic presentation of every last month, as the wind through the moments and made them history – no forgotten history –

These are the selection from the snapshots I did, according mostly from accidental events, professional shots and my walks around the streets

I decided to do this every month as a small appreciation for the people and the moments were smiled to me !!

MAY 2017 in Cyprus.

Visitors in the exhibition ‘Risky travels’ of Andys Hadjiadamos and Baci Bogac in Pafos on 5 May, 2017 for the Pafos 2017.

In the exhibition ‘Risky travels’ of Andys Hadjiadamos and Baci Bogac in Pafos on 5 May, 2017 for the Pafos 2017. The Andys grandson touching the sculpture of his grandfather and his mother looking.

Baki Bogac, Turkish Cypriot, Sculptor and Architect, 66 year old. He saved the works of Andy in the official opening of the exhibition ‘Risky travels’ of Andys Hadjiadamos and Baci Bogac in Pafos on 5 May, 2017 for the Pafos 2017.

In mosque a child playing during the praying

Empty shop in the occupied part of Nicosia

In the orthodox church “Wisdom of God” in Nicosia attended of the president of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades was done the ceremony of the remains or part of the remains of seventeen Greek soldiers on 26 May, 2017 who died during the 1974 Turkish invasion. The coffins of the 17 Greek nationals will handed over to Greece’s by defence minister Panos Kammenos

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And you let her go …

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Iakovos Hatzistavrou

Every day I am surprised from this unique little human being
I am still having her in my mind, when she was so small, so fragile, a baby
She is still my baby but …
the years run and the time is not like Pinelope (wife of famous Odyssea) doesn’t waiting for you.
Nope never
so one day you are looking the mirror and the faces are different

When I heard this song I felt as if I ate cuff…..
and you let her go…… you let her flying

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The arrival

Posted on October 8, 2015 by Iakovos Hatzistavrou

The worst migration crisis since World War II. (The pictures are from Lesvos island, Greece)

…

I have no words to express myself, to describe the pictures or my emotions and I really I don’t want to do it.
The only thing that I know is that I went to Lesvos island to cover the arrival of the refugees with suspicious thoughts about them and after just one day I started “seeing” in several boats my daughter, my wife and myself

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We were there too

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Iakovos Hatzistavrou

Fengaros festival in Kato Drys in the Larnaca district, for another three-day run, filled with music, on the 31st of July until the 2nd of August. Celebrating its fifth birthday, Fengaros is today considered as one of the best and most highly-anticipated events of the summer. The bar has been set even higher this year, with the ultimate goal being the festival’s establishment as an important and major international event.

Bands and solo artists from Cyprus, Greece, England, France and the USA created an amalgam of music ranging from traditional to progressive, ethnic, blues, pop/rock, psychedelic, ambient, jazz and more.

This musical melting pot includes an attractive collection of names such as: the renowned world music act Banda Magda (USA), the Epirus stoner-rockers Villagers of Ioannina City (Greece), the beloved to the cypriot audience Flying Ibex (UK), the Cretan music virtuoso quartet Xylouris/Spyridakis/Persides/Katsikiotis (Greece), the uplifting The Burger Project (Greece), the freak-folk Le Juki (UK), the upcoming psychedelic-pop band The Cave Children (Greece), acts for children such as Dimitris Baslam’s (Greece), Alexia C.’s solo act (France), and Martha Mavroidi’s ethnic trio (Greece). From the local music scene, we’ll see names such as the veterans of cypriot rock To Marazi tis Fotoulas, the folk/progressive J. Kriste, Master of Disguise, and Tricoolore.

Three stages: the Main Stage, the Village Stage and the ABR Stage (in collaboration with Alternative Brains Rule), hinting at the festival’s pulse and vibe during its three-day take-over.

The festival’s organic athmosphere is further emphasized by the village’s graphic scenery, as the aesthetic of the surroundings will become once again a source of inspiration for both the artists and the participants

and after all, she finally slept :)

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Children who stayed behind

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Iakovos Hatzistavrou

The deplorable living conditions of the enclaved Cypriot’s can be demonstrated by the simple recounting of their numbers following the Turkish invasion of 1974.
In July of that year the Greek Cypriot population of the area presently occupied by the Turkish army was 162,000. By the time the second phase of the Turkish invasion had been completed, in August 1974, 142,000 Cypriots were expelled or forced to flee, leaving 20,000, mostly in the Karpas peninsula (Report S/11488 of the UNSG to the Security Council dated 4 September 1974).
During the next four months, another 5,000 were forced to leave, resulting in a reduction of the Greek Cypriot population of the occupied area by 91% (Report S/11568, 6 December 1974, para. 43).
According to the latest report of the Secretary General to the Security Council this number has diminished to 427 Greek Cypriots and 165 Maronites (S/1122, 30 November 2001, para. 8).
The situation today seems better the enclaved are almost 350 people, the students in school of Rizokarpaso are only 19
On 24 of June in the school parents, students and official guests celebrated the closing ceremony of the school year

(EDITING by Slaviana Chekirova)

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Mass weddings

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Iakovos Hatzistavrou

On June 19, 2015 on the beach of Larnaca Medieval Castle, married 70 couples, which were accompanied by about 200 guests.
For the fifth consecutive year, the Municipality of Larnaca and the Tourism Development and Promotion Larnaca in cooperation with tour operators from Israel, organizing this celebration event of massive civil marriages.

The intended spouses, majority Israelis and Russians, arrived by boat in Larnaca port from Haifa,
the transition of couples in the marriage celebration took place with vintage cars from the Old Car Club of Cyprus.

The area was ruled by the Police with a strong presence for the fear of terrorism, since on June 29 will be tried in criminal court, 26 year old Lebanese where in his house found 5 tons of ammonium nitrate

CURETED & EDITING by Slaviana Chekirova

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Cyprus peace talks and social cafe

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Iakovos Hatzistavrou

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci and Greek Cypriot president Nicos Anastasiades had a social meeting today 23 of May, 2015 in the old town of Nicosia,

they walked together on both sides of the divided capital’s medieval center, first they went in the occupied old town of Nicosia and after they continued their walk in the free Nicosia.