This selection of images is part of an ongoing long term research, aiming to narrate the profound changes that Greece is experiencing in recent years.
Since 2010, the Ellenic peninsula is facing a regime of economical austerity, imposed by the European Union as a condition to receive new loans, essentials in order to pay public expenses.
The consequences of these politics, even if public debt has slightly decreased, are having a tremendous impact on many levels, permanently modifying the perspectives of social and territorial development of
the country.

The cuts by the public system added to the layoffs by private companies, unable to coop with the rising taxes, brought unemployment to 30%. Thousands of people lost their houses for not being able to pay bank loans.
Public health sector is in a dramatic condition as well, with an estimated debt of nine hundred millions of Euros towards providers, hospitals cancelled most of the assistance programs, from cancer to drug addiction treatments; pouring thousands of people in the streets.
The dramatic impoverishment of the country, coupled with the necessity to relate with phenomena of global character, created in Greece a situation without historical precedents, capable of showing all the gaps and contradictions that the current European Union brings with itself.

Exhibition organized by Renata Ferri
Text from Francesco Anselmi