War & Occupation
A major event of the 2004 Kythera Photographic Encounters was the exhibition “War, Occupation and Liberation in Kythera”, based on the holdings of the Kythera Photographic Archive and a number of private loans. The greater part of the exhibition consisted of contemporary prints produced from glass negatives exposed between 1941 and 1945 by Manolis Fatseas, son of the photographer Panayotis Fatseas, who had died in 1938. Despite his youth (he was only fifteen at the time of his father’s death), Manolis Fatseas continued to run the photography business from the studio in Leivadi. Carefully husbanding his limited resources of negative plates, paper and chemicals, he continued to photograph during the war and occupation years; the surviving work includes images of everyday life, portraits of the islanders and of the refugees who had found shelter on Kythera, but also of the Italian and German occupation forces, eager for portraits of themselves to send to their families. Finally, Manolis Fatseas was able to photograph the arrival of British and Greek troops on the island and the celebrations with which they were welcomed.
The Kythera Cultural Association is continuing its research into the history of Kythera during the war years, and is building up an associated archive of pictorial, oral and documentary testimony. We welcome any personal accounts of the period, or any other relevant information.
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Excursion to Chamili (?), 1942-44
Manolis Fatseas: Group photograph of a wartime excursion, probably to Chamili. Seated from right: Manolis Fatseas, Giorgos...
submitted by KCA Admin on 08.02.2006
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