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Athens: A man on his chemical nirvana. Midnight at the central Omonoia square: the great drug bazaar. © Maro Kouri
MKGR_ADCT_01		 Athens: 22-year old Popi scores her ‘junk‘ every evening in the central Omonoia square. Lack of heroin might stop her two months pregnancy, so, her doctor insists just to reduce it. Opium substance burns at her cigarette. © Maro Kouri
MKGR_ADCT_02		 Athens: 22-year old Popi scores her ‘junk‘ every evening in the central Omonoia square. Lack of heroin might stop her two months pregnancy, so, her doctor insists just to reduce it. Opium substance burns at her cigarette. © Maro Kouri
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Athens: 22-year old Popi scores her ‘junk‘ every evening in the central Omonoia square. Lack of heroin might stop her two months pregnancy, so, her doctor insists just to reduce it. Opium substance burns at her cigarette. © Maro Kouri
MKGR_ADCT_04		 Athens, midnight at the central Omonoia square: the great drug bazaar. Popi, in her chemical nirvana. Bublegal are the sleeping tablets that junkies use in order to substitute their craving, so they will not suffer from withdrawal. © Maro Kouri
MKGR_ADCT_05		 Athens, Klafthmonos sq. shanty neighbourhood: 50 year old Anna takes her dose by begging for a coin. She needs 30 euros per day. She was sleeping in a shelter next to other heroin addicted junkees. Untill one morning of July, the municipality cleaners asked her jently to leave. Then, they "cleaned" the little shanty town. Anna is used in moving squares. She‘ll move somewhere else. © Maro Kouri
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Athens, Klafthmonos sq. shanty neighbourhood: 50 year old Anna takes her dose by begging for a coin. She needs 30 euros per day. She was sleeping in a shelter next to other heroin addicted junkees. Untill one morning of July, the municipality cleaners asked her jently to leave. Then, they "cleaned" the little shanty town. Anna is used in moving squares. She‘ll move somewhere else. © Maro Kouri
MKGR_ADCT_07		 Athens, Klafthmonos sq. shanty neighbourhood: 50 year old Anna takes her dose by begging for a coin. She needs 30 euros per day. She was sleeping in a shelter next to other heroin addicted junkees. Untill one morning of July, the municipality cleaners asked her jently to leave. Then, they "cleaned" the little shanty town. Anna is used in moving squares. She‘ll move somewhere else. © Maro Kouri
MKGR_ADCT_08		 Athens, Klafthmonos sq.: 65 year old Thanassis is always stoned... He lives in his shanty next to other addicted to heroin persons, as also, next to psycho persons, or extremely poor immigrants. © Maro Kouri
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Athens, Klafthmonos sq. shanty neighbourhood: 50 year old Anna gets her dose by begging for a coin. She needs 30 euros per day. She sleeps in a shelter next to other addicted to heroin junkees. One morning of July the municipality cleaners asked her jently to leave and they "cleaned" the little shanty town. Anna is used in moving squares. She‘ll move somewhere else. © Maro Kouri
MKGR_ADCT_10		 Athens, Klafthmonos sq. shanty neighbourhood: 50 year old Anna takes her dose by begging for a coin. She needs 30 euros per day. She was sleeping in a shelter next to other heroin addicted junkees. Untill one morning of July, the municipality cleaners asked her jently to leave. Then, they "cleaned" the little shanty town. Anna is used in moving squares. She‘ll move somewhere else. © Maro Kouri
MKGR_ADCT_11		 Athens: Antonis sniffs heroin for the last 28 years. He has lived in Belgium and Chicago. Once, he got married but couldn’t produce a child. He returned to drugs. The last four years he lives under the abandoned and rusty automatic stairs of Klafthmonos central square. © Maro Kouri
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Athens, Vathi central sq.: 40 year old Aggeliki, she believes she is a victim of love. She is homeless for the last 4 years, after a separation from her partner. Then some foreigners as she says, kick her out from her establishment. She is begging in order to earn 30 euros to buy her dose of heroin © Maro Kouri
MKGR_ADCT_13		 Old Athens, Plaka: Homeless 76 year old Elias claims he beheaded his wife because he caught her in bed with her lover. He was imprisoned when he was 22 and was released a year ago, at the age of 75. He doesn’t know where his two children are. He smokes marijuana and he knows how to perform a lot of magic tricks. © Maro Kouri
MKGR_ADCT_14		 Athens: Nicholas has been an alcoholic homeless for the last 18 years. For the last four years he has been sleeping under the beautiful pines of Zappeio central park where he has set up his establishment. Even when Athens suffers from the heat, his real hard moments, as he says, are the nights of December. © Maro Kouri
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Athens, Klafthmonos sq.: 65 year old Thanassis is always stoned... He lives in his shanty next to other addicted to heroin persons, as also, next to psycho persons, or extremely poor immigrants. © Maro Kouri
MKGR_ADCT_16		 Athens, Klafthmonos sq. shanty neighbourhood: 50 year old Anna takes her dose by begging for a coin. She needs 30 euros per day. She was sleeping in a shelter next to Thanassi, 65 year old Thanassi also addicted in heroin. Her husband is in his last moments in the hospital. . Untill one morning of July, the municipality cleaners asked her jently to leave. Then, they "cleaned" the little shanty town. Anna is used in moving squares. She‘ll move somewhere else. © Maro Kouri
MKGR_ADCT_17		 Athens, Klafthmonos central square‘s shanty town © Maro Kouri
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Athens, Klafthmonos sq. shanty neighbourhood: 50 year old Anna takes her dose by begging for a coin. She needs 30 euros per day. She was sleeping in a shelter next to other heroin addicted junkees. Untill one morning of July, the municipality cleaners asked her jently to leave. Then, they "cleaned" the little shanty town. Anna is used in moving squares. She‘ll move somewhere else. © Maro Kouri
MKGR_ADCT_19		 Greece, Athens, Pangrati suburb. 50 year old diabetic Theodoros has a beatiful voice but his tung roles only when he sings. He cannot speak normal. He usually drinks around ten refreshments in a coffeeshop after eating about a kilo of chocolates. © Maro Kouri
MKGR_ADCT_20		 Athens, Vathi central sq.: 40 year old Aggeliki, she believes she is a victim of love. She is homeless for the last 4 years, after a separation from her partner. Then some foreigners as she says, kick her out from her establishment. She is begging in order to earn 30 euros to buy her dose of heroin © Maro Kouri
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Athens: 22-year old Popi scores her ‘junk‘ every evening in the central Omonoia square. Lack of heroin might stop her two months pregnancy, so, her doctor insists just to reduce it. Opium substance burns at her cigarette. © Maro Kouri
MKGR_ADCT_22		 Athens: Antonis sniffs heroin for the last 28 years. He has lived in Belgium and Chicago. Once, he got married but couldn’t produce a child. He returned to drugs. The last four years he lives under the abandoned and rusty automatic stairs of Klafthmonos central square. © Maro Kouri
MKGR_ADCT_23		 Athens: 55 year old Stelios Moraitis, an old rocker and professional guitarist. Actually, he was playing in Mikis Theodorakis band. Divorced and father of a son he is addicted to heroin for decades. Now, he follows the state programme of methadone. He eats his lunch at the Centre for the Poor of Athens municipality. © Maro Kouri
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Athens, Vathi central sq.: 40 year old Aggeliki, she believes she is a victim of love. She is homeless for the last 4 years, after a separation from her partner. Then some foreigners as she says, kick her out from her establishment. She is begging in order to earn 30 euros to buy her dose of heroin © Maro Kouri
MKGR_ADCT_25		 Athens: Antonis sniffs heroin for the last 28 years. He has lived in Belgium and Chicago. Once, he got married but couldn’t produce a child. He returned to drugs. The last four years he lives under the abandoned and rusty automatic stairs of Klafthmonos central square © Maro Kouri
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