AthensLive

13/10/2021

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🪨 Σύντομα κοντά σας!
«SISIFOS: Η Τέχνη ως Θεραπευτικό Εργαλείο»

Η καλλιτεχνική συνεύρεση του φωτογράφου Άγγελου Χριστοφιλόπουλου και της εικαστικού Μαρίας Καραθάνου με στόχο τη δημιουργία μιας σειράς πολυσυλλεκτικών δράσεων - εικαστικών έργων και εκθέσεων σχεδιασμένων για το δημόσιο χώρο.

Μία παραγωγή της ΑΘΕΝΣ ΛΑΪΒ ΑΜΚΕ.
Με την οικονομική υποστήριξη και την αιγίδα του Υπουργείου ​Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού.

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🪨 Coming soon!
“SISIFOS: Art as a Therapeutic Tool”

This project is an inspired encounter between photographer Angelos Christofilopoulos and visual artist Maria Karathanou, aiming to deliver inclusive events of visual artworks and exhibitions, created for the public space.

A production by ATHENS LIVE AMKΕ.
With the financial support and under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.

24/07/2021

Iasonas Apostolopoulos, a rescuer onboard SAR vessels in the Med was supposed to be honored by 's president Katerina Sakellaropoulou for his humanitarian work as the country celebrates 47 years since the restoration of democracy.

A few hours before the ceremony and after governmental interference he was informed that his award was refused by the president. The presidency hasn't commented on the incident so far.

Here's what he told us in 2018 about his work.

Iasonas Apostolopoulos is an Athens-born humanitarian worker and civil engineer. He was working as a rescuer on board Aquarius 2, one of the largest rescue v...

29/04/2021

After more than a decade of austerity measures, recession, and unemployment, has seen a big shift in the makeup of homeownership, a shift that comes at the expense of residents and that benefits big business.

On this week's PUSHBACK Talks episode, Leilani Farha and Fredrik Gertten sit down with our co-founder and data journalist Sotiris Sideris to discuss who is buying up all the foreclosed properties in Athens and the greek part of the cross-border collaborative investigation .

After more than a decade of austerity measures, recession, and unemployment, Athens has seen a big shift in the makeup of homeownership, a shift that comes at the expense of residents and that benefits big business. In a country where homeownershi...

28/04/2021

Housing is becoming less affordable across European cities.

During a period of more than seven months, a team of over 25 investigative and data journalists and visualisation experts from 16 European countries, have been working on the cross-border collaborative project Cities for Rent: Investigating Corporate Landlords Across Europe.

Τaking the city of as our starting point, Reporters United and AthensLive set out to analyze and map the evolution of residential property auctions throughout .

How has the process of defaulting Greek NPLs transformed the human right to housing into a profitable business, and how has debt collection become a new form of investment in the housing markets of European peripheries and also of capital extraction from households?

Investigating Corporate Landlords across Europe.

28/04/2021

If you live in the U.S., over the next few days you'll have the chance to watch our documentary TIED at SEEfest. The film is capturing a shocking story from the innermost depths of 's maritime industry and is competing in the feature-length category. You can buy tickets here: https://seefilmla.org/portfolio/tied/

15/03/2021

Greek startup Code4thought builds technology that tests AI systems for the existence of bias and explains the reasons as to why they came up with a given result. In other words, they strive to give us, the people an instrument with which we can evaluate whether an AI system can be trusted or not. This week they plan to demonstrate their technology to the community and we would like to ignite discussions at Mozilla's . Yiannis Kanellopoulos explains. https://medium.com/athenslivegr/in-algorithms-we-need-to-trust-not-there-yet-c73b5a0256cc?source=friends_link&sk=6f2dfa4886ee30f0ec52a5bf53c31c3d

Artificial Intelligence is impacting our lives for good, so we need to take a closer look

11/02/2021

"Mrs. Bekatorou chose to do just that. She revealed wrongdoing that she had witnessed, during the past, while serving as an athlete of a professional national institution. Such wrongdoing was likely to be repeated and continue to cause harm to our society. There are two categories of whistleblowers. They are the ones that have direct information (directly witnessed wrongdoing) or indirect (hearsay, told by someone else). Mrs. Bekatorou is both a direct and indirect whistleblower." https://medium.com/athenslivegr/sophia-bekatorou-is-a-whistleblower-too-99fd6ba4b43e?source=friends_link&sk=95e01abcf41719e870b706c4b40807bd

Why indivisibles such as Olympic Sailor Mrs. Bekatorou should be considered whistleblowers

26/11/2020

Here's another opportunity for those who haven’t seen our documentary “TIED”. It’s free from today until Sunday, November 29, through the official page of the Φεστιβάλ Ελληνικού Ντοκιμαντέρ Χαλκίδας - DocFest. You can also vote TIED for the Audience Award! Visit the link https://www.docfest.gr.
Click on docfest online.
All you need is one minute to create a free account and then you can watch the program and follow the online activities of the Festival.
https://online2020.docfest.gr/

05/11/2020

"We see that, once again in the face of a total threat, what is being done is the pursuit of profit."

Konstantinos Troupakis, co-founder of Contentativa, a non-profit company of advocates, researchers, and activists, reminds us that the only model that will be able to give us the solution and discover the vaccine to halt the pandemic is solidarity, unity, and cooperation.

Follow the link to find out more about Contentativa and their services: https://bit.ly/34Ygr8K

01/10/2020

🦺What's the longest you've been unpaid?⚓️
Follow the U.S. premiere of “TIED” at the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival

Available on Thu, Oct 15, 2020 12:00am PST
(Virtual): http://lagff.org/tied/

The documentary captures the struggle of 320 unpaid seamen of NEL Lines, one of Greece’s most historic maritime companies, in 2015. With many trapped in the company’s vessels in Drapetsona, a part of the Piraeus port, and away from the spotlight, the camera captures their efforts to receive their wages for 7 months during the most critical times in Greece’s modern history. To this day they have received less than half of the wages owed to them and their case is still before the court of appeal.
Production: Tassos Morfis
Cinematography: Yannis Drakoulidis
Editing: Gerasimos Domenikos
Photography: Angelos Christofilopoulos
Color grading: Dinos Vamvakousis
Original score: Giannis Papaioannou / ION
A co-production: ATHENSLIVE - ΑΘΕΝΣΛΑΪΒ A.M.K.E. - Fosphotos - RosaLuxgr funded by Auswärtiges Amt

22/09/2020

🦺What's the longest you've been unpaid?⚓️
Our documentary “ΔΕΜΕΝΟΙ - TIED” is premiering in Athens this Thursday at Νύχτες Πρεμιέρας • Athens International Film Festival. The venue is Τριανον the time 19.45pm.

You can book tickets here: http://www.aiff.gr/ellinika_ntokimanter/arthro/demenoi_tied-15554539/

The documentary captures the struggle of 320 unpaid seamen of NEL Lines, one of Greece’s most historic maritime companies, in 2015. With many trapped in the company’s vessels in Drapetsona, a part of the Piraeus port, and away from the spotlight, the camera captures their efforts to receive their wages for 7 months during the most critical times in Greece’s modern history. To this day they have received less than half of the wages owed to them and their case is still before the court of appeal.
Production: Tassos Morfis
Cinematography: Yannis Drakoulidis
Editing: Gerasimos Domenikos
Photography: Angelos Christofilopoulos
Color grading: Dinos Vamvakousis
Original score: Giannis Papaioannou / ION
A co-production: ATHENSLIVE - ΑΘΕΝΣΛΑΪΒ A.M.K.E. -Fosphotos - RosaLuxgr funded by Auswärtiges Amt

13/09/2020

On Saturday, protested on the streets near Kara Tepe, asking for evacuation to as they don't want to be transferred to a closed type camp on .

Families and children were sheltered on the street for the fifth night, while access to basic resources is still very limited - especially with regard to .

Photos by Angelos Christofilopoulos from on the ground.

In response to the ongoing peaceful protests held by those who have fled Moria, riot police fired tear gas.

11/09/2020

After days of sleeping on the streets, people who fled the fire at Moria are still waiting for provisions.

Angelos Christofilopoulos' latest photo report from Lesvos.

After fires destroyed Europe’s largest refugee camp, asylum seekers are left on the streets without shelter, provisions or medical help.

11/09/2020

Calling for the right to leave Lesvos, thousands of refugees and migrants, who have been left homeless after fires destroyed the overcrowded Moria camp, staged a protest in front of the police barriers which prevented them from moving to the island’s main town of Mytilene. Some held up signs pleading for help from Germany.

Greek authorities have declared a state of emergency on the island and suggested the blazes were deliberately set by some of the camp’s residents angered by isolation orders issued to prevent the spread of coronavirus after at least 35 residents were found to have been infected.

Families are sleeping on roads, in fields and cemeteries. There's little running water, and washing is difficult.

Many locals oppose plans to rebuild temporary camps as tents are being set up on a disused shooting range to accommodate refugees and migrants from the destroyed camp.



Photos: Angelos Christofilopoulos

11/09/2020

Thousands of persons, who were already living in inhumane and degrading conditions in , have now even lost their makeshift shelters.

Photos by Angelos Christofilopoulos from his second morning on , where more than 12,000 refugees and migrants are forced to sleep by the roadside after a fast-moving fire destroyed much of the camp.

Thousands of refugees and migrants left homeless on Lesvos after the island’s Moria camp was gutted by back-to-back fires.

10/09/2020

Our photographer Angelos Christofilopoulos is on documenting the extent of the damage and human suffering inflicted on thousands of refugees and migrants after fire.

A photo story from Greece’s largest refugee camp after the blaze.

12/08/2020

Not unlike the days of the peak of the refugee crisis in 2015, many migrants are once again calling the streets of Athens home in large numbers. This time, they must interact with a more conservative government as they navigate their new lives in Greece. For many, even the events of the next day are uncertain. Here are their stories. by Stavroula Barbara and Angelos Christofilopoulos https://medium.com/athenslivegr/waiting-for-the-next-chapter-to-begin-everyday-life-for-refugees-at-viktoria-square-25fff4fc7401?source=friends_link&sk=c7387a58ceac0df65f855b0e785e968e

Not unlike the days of the peak of the refugee crisis in 2015, many migrants are once again calling the streets of Athens home in large…