Greece, A Home With No Doors (2015-2017), is a project focusing on the ongoing refugee crisis in Lesvos and Athens in Greece. The title is inspired by an interview with a former Jamiat-e-Islami-yi Afghanistan commander and anti-Soviet Mujahideen. The images are a documentation of the refugees' perilous journeys since 2015, their arrival on the island of Lesvos and their strand in Elliniko camp in Athens.
Elliniko is no ordinary refugee camp. It was once the Olympic Airways central airport in Athens. The refugees live in a tent city in the abandoned airport, beneath signs promising Departures and Arrivals. No one wants to stay but no one can leave. The airport works as an ironic metaphor for the trapped and transitory nature of the refugees.
The geography of Elliniko itself carries a strong heritage, which is intertwined with traces of Aristotle Onassis' bloodline, Olympic Airways disintegration and Greece's economy and the nations antigovernment feelings leading the country into modern ruins.
Greece, A Home With No Doors, reexamines the means of representation, the frail ephemerality of human traces and the recycle of atrocity.
