Daphne Tolis

08/11/2024

These photos can’t really capture the grandeur of the Estonian National Museum.

Ryoji Ikeda’s solo exhibition is running until 2.3.2025 and it is mind blowing.

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07/11/2024

A bridge in Tartu lit up in the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

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06/11/2024

10-minute connection.

02/11/2024

Sometimes in this line of work you meet colleagues on the 1st day of filming and spend days-on-end with them even though you never met them before. With Anja we met and worked remotely before we physically met in . With Chris (the 🎥 DOP) and Christian (the 🎤 sound operator) we only met on location and worked hard across several locations with a demanding schedule. We managed to do more than anticipated and I just want to extend my gratitude to Marianna, Vassilis, Carolina, and the rest of the contributors who facilitated the production of this episode featuring beautiful people and their craft.

29/10/2024

Rhodes, : 266 cruise ships with more than 353 000 passengers up until 30 September 2024.

October is expected to be the busiest month for cruise ships docking on the Greek island of with a total of 60 liners. 19 cruise ships expected in November.

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23/10/2024

Southern .

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23/10/2024

We were standing on the beach in complete darkness. Lined up together with few other helpers as we were informed by the Spanish lifeguards PROACTIVA that there is a stream of boats arriving. Lights from the Turkish coast was the only thing we could see. A few minutes later and while our eyes were pinned in the pitch black waters we heard some distant low-tone singing. A sweet-sounding melody with no visual reference was coming closer and closer. Within minutes a cheering and clapping dinghy landed on the beach. We, at land, transferred all babies & children first and held them until their parents came ashore. When reunited with his daughter - after those few minutes of separation - this Syrian man burst into joyful tears over his 2 month-old baby. Haunted by children's cries so far in this harrowing refugee crisis this was a rewarding moment.

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22/10/2024

“How the mafia took control of Mykonos”

Written by Nick Squires. Additional research by Daphne Tolis.

Murder of surveyor lifts lid on hidden underworld of criminality, corruption, drug dealing and protection rackets

20/10/2024

🎬 Crew selfie.

17/10/2024

This is the manual way of combing the foliage to harvest the olive trees, a way largely replaced by the electric harvesters and a game changer in the harvesting procedure.

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15/10/2024

Οινομαγειρείο / Diner

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13/10/2024

Σε εξέλιξη βρίσκεται επιχείρηση εντοπισμού και διάσωσης γυναίκας με ανήλικο τέκνο στη Σύμη. Η γυναίκα έφτασε στο νησί της Σύμης από τα παράλια της Τουρκίας με τη βοήθεια διακινητή μεταναστών. Σύμφωνα με πληροφορίες μου, η γυναίκα είναι εγκλωβισμένη σε δύσβατη πλαγιά.

Το ανήλικο τέκνο εντοπίστηκε ζωντανό γύρω στις 12 το μεσημέρι, χωρίς τις αισθήσεις του. Μεταφέρθηκε στο κέντρο Υγείας Σύμης.

12/10/2024

Athenians enjoying the beach as temperatures are in the high 20s in mid October.

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05/10/2024

Autumn | Φθινόπωρο

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26/09/2024

With this cross-border investigation we managed to reveal a staggering number of 1015 unidentified bodies buried in graves across Europe. More than half of these are in this country, Greece, one of the main entry points forming Europe’s migration landscape in the last decade.

It now marks 9 years since I witnessed one of the deadliest shipwrecks on Greek territory. I was there when the Hellenic coastguard, rescue teams and Greek fishermen were struggling to save people from drowning, from hypothermia, from dying. I was handed a months-old unconscious baby upside down to pass on to the hands of the medical team working feverishly on the floor of a small harbor on Le**os island. Several weeks later, I was at the cemetery where the victims of that shipwreck were buried. I saw two gravestones, side by side, that each read “unidentified infant” and a series of numbers underneath. The cemetery was created in 2015 in lack of space to bury the victims of shipwrecks.

This is our core border graves investigation team, as we call it. Barbara Matejcic, Leah Pattem, Gabriela Ramirez, Danai Maragkoudaki, Gabriele Cruciata, Eoghan Gilmartin and Tina Xu.

Thank you to all the people who spoke to us. We are happy our work has made an impact.

23/09/2024

A group of tourists under the Athenian sun.

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23/09/2024

A boat carrying around 33 people sank off the Greek island of on Monday. Three bodies have been recovered.

Survivors said that the people on board were around 33 and as of Monday noon 25 people were reported missing. A search and rescue operation is underway.

20/09/2024

The Stadium of Delphi, one of the venues of the Pythian Games.

The original stadium dates to the fifth century B.C. but was reconstructed many times in the centuries that followed.

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