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Mitos / The Thread of Greece
An extensive survey on Greek women’s costumes during the XXI century.
The Mitos Project started in 2019 and is an ongoing ethnographic tribute that focuses on local costumes throughout Greece. The thread takes on symbolic dimensions and seeks to highlight popular culture and folk art seen in a contemporary context. The natural and cultural environment is the background that is associated with the “costumes” while the protagonists are always the people.
Through this project, it is claimed the promotion of the beauty of the Greek folk culture that concerns both the simplicity and the splendor of the form of clothing as a central theme. The content has a multitude of meanings and is related to the social, historical, economic, and cultural context, to networks of relationships, to struggles, and the construction of identities. In addition, natural space and architecture are dominant elements in the image.
The peculiarity of this photographic work lies in its modern view, through the people who have kept their clothes as heirlooms and pass them on to the next generation while using them on customary and festive occasions spontaneously, updating the mechanisms of tradition as a process.
A thread that binds me with my roots!
Ethos / Another Side of Greece
Exploring the faith and community of Greece’s extraordinary folk culture in the XXI century.
Michael Pappas make images of customs and traditional events in Greece.
His images are being published internationally, including VOGUE, New York Times, National Geographic, VICE US and more.
The exhibition at the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture in Athens and at the Fragonard Museum in the world’s perfumecapital in Grasse, France presented for the first time to the public, images that the photographer have made over the last years during his visits to traditional events in Greece.
His love of human-centered pictures, as well as rural Greece, prompted to create images during local traditional events and to produce a more experiential work. His goal is to see all these traditional events up close so that he can show them to the general public through the art of photography.
“I am particularly delighted that the successful project ‘Ethos / Another Side of Greece’ is evolving into a breathtaking book—an exceptional journey through the customs and traditions of another Greece.
“ANOTHER GREECE” is available for direct purchase from my publisher.
Please your order now to acquire this unique book and experience the essence of another Greece.
Thank you for being with us on this journey!”
MITOS on VOGUE
SPOTLIGHT PHOTOGRAPHER by VOGUE for the Mitos Project. 2022-2023.
The Mitos Project started in 2019 and is an ongoing ethnographic tribute that focuses on local women costumes throughout Greece.
“You are truly blessing us with all these beautiful images!”
Xaviera Aubri
Contributing Fashion Editor
VOGUE Netherlands
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Mitos Photos Box is an innovative and affordable solution for institutions, companies and organisations, to educate and bring awareness to the causes they are passionate about and are aligned with. It’s easy, flexible and interactive display methods allow you to create your own exhibition catered to your own space.
Specification
Each box contains the license for the rights to present this exhibition for a period to be specified.
Please note, there are limited sets of this Mitos Photos Box licensed globally. We work strictly on a first come, first serve basis.
Collaborations:
– Olympic Stadium of Athens. GREECE. 2021.
– Bar Vlaha. Top 25 Restaurant in Boston. USA. 2023.
EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITIONS
-THE BENAKI MUSEUM OF GREEK CULTURE. GREECE. ATHENS. NOV6 2018 – JAN13 2019. ETHOS.
-MUSEE FRAGONARD. FRANCE. GRASSE. MAY25 – SEP22, 2019. ETHOS.
-PHOTOMETRIA PHOTOGRAPHY CENTER. GREECE. IOANNINA. SEPTEMBER 2021. MITOS.
-GALLERY HESTIA. SERBIA. BELGRADE. JUN20 – SEP17, 2023. ETHOS, MITOS.
-MODULAR PHOTOGRAPHIC INSTALLATION. GREECE. KYTHNOS ISLAND. JUL22 – OCT01 2023. THREADS.
-GALERIA E ARTEVE. ALBANIA. MAY, 2024. MITOS.
PERMANENT EXHIBITION
-OLYMPIC ATHLETIC CENTER OF ATHENS ‘SPIROS LOUIS’. 2021. MITOS PHOTOS BOX.
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