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I photograph the women next door, capturing moments of their daily lives during my assignments all over the world. Fighters in their own right, in the job, family and love. Even if sometimes they become victims of violence and usage, they are hopeful, optimistic and smiling to my camera lens.
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380 © Maro Kouri "Jazz" people in Athens. People that suffer from psychoproblems. Soso has a lot of money in her bank accounts as also two bulidings in Athens. After her mother's death she cannot return there. She lives in the street. © Maro Kouri "Jazz"people in Athens. Stiliani lives in Omonoia sq. She feels sick because some gypsy put poison in her coffee. © Maro Kouri 348 ©Maro Kouri/On Location Ethiopia, illustration Gambela, young woman, Nuer tribe, West Ethiopia © Maro Kouri 349 © Maro Kouri 86758 Tokyo: The Multidiverse Club Geisha House © Maro Kouri 351 © Maro Kouri 137070 Ishikawa: Into the Heart of Japan Cape Rokugozaki, Lampuno Yado, Japanese Inn and hot springs w/ thermal baths © Maro Kouri 139565 Greek Spas Edessa, Aridea, Pozar Baths, elderly woman bathes in the healing waters © Maro Kouri 95433 Greek Spas Kavala, Krenides, people take mud bath © Maro Kouri 355 © Maro Kouri 356 Ano Liossia, 12 km from the center of Athens.'Homateri' is called this area where all garbages are thrown to burn. Gypsie family from Albania © Maro Kouri 101409 Dodecanese, Rhodes: Red Light District Bed of roses: Mariana Souvari spent her life as a prostitute for the last three decades. Today, Marianna killed her pimp and she imprisoned. © Maro Kouri 358 China, Woman in Beijing copyright:Maro Kouri © Maro Kouri 359 India, Hyderabad. At the bus station. Mother sings to her child a lullaby. © Maro Kouri 360 © Maro Kouri MKR_017512900 East European dancer at the "St Petersburg" Cabaret Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, Europe ©Maro Kouri/IML Image Group © Maro Kouri 362 © Maro Kouri 363 © Maro Kouri 364 © Maro Kouri 365 © Maro Kouri Malaisia, Butterfly Park ©Maro Kouri Malasia, butterfly park © Maro Kouri Ethiopia, hungry mother ©Maro Kouri At the backdoor of a restaurant a mother waits for some scraps to feed her baby. At the biggest African market. Addis Ababa. Ethiopia © Maro Kouri 138028 Japan (illustration) Kyoto, Gion District, a maiko or trainee geisha looks for a taxi © Maro Kouri 369 China, The two faces of Beijing Copyright:Maro Kouri © Maro Kouri MKR_010312985 fashion show of Fernando Guzman at the Place D'Armes. In front of the City Palace, administrative building with festival halls and seat of the Luxembourg City Tourist Office. Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, Europe ©Maro Kouri/IML Image Group © Maro Kouri MKR_007211003 East Coast Ruatoria, the most maori habitted town. Doma Rangitaria Moses is the Maor's woman name, written on her 'moku' tattoo. It means Alpha Morning Star Omega (taken from the Bible: revelation 2:28 "and I will give him the morning star"). She lives with the rasta-fari Hohn Heeney and their three children, Amnesty, Rangitiaria and the smallest Anahera (byblic name for 'angel'). New Zealand, Australasia ©Maro Kouri/IML Image Group © Maro Kouri MKR_005312925 "Balls" artwork by Ilona Nemeth, Petrusse Valley. Poland Kasia Malinnowska with her sister Mata make an interail stop-European tour by train, especially cheap for young people. Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, Europe ©Maro Kouri/IML Image Group *** Local Caption *** LUXEMBOURG CITY is one of the most spectacularly situated capitals in Europe, the deep canyons of its two rivers, the Alzette and Petrusse, lending it an almost perfect strategic location. It's a tiny place by capital-city standards and broadly divides into three distinct sections. The old town, on the northern side of the Petrusse valley, is not noticeably ancient, but its tight grid of streets, home to most of the city's sights, makes for a pleasant, lively area by day. On the opposite side of the Petrusse, connected by two bridges, is the modern city. © Maro Kouri 376 IslBG © Maro Kouri 377 © Maro Kouri 18045 Barcelona Nightlife Massive Attack Concert, Zeleste Barna © Maro Kouri 379 © Maro Kouri 931 COX'S BAZAR In the world's longest natural sandy beach Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, an Islamic society, neither men nor women –of course– are allowed to wear swimsuits. © Maro Kouri 932 Abu Dhabi: Woman in a shopping mall, tries luxury accessories made by famous couturier. Under the silk, parfumed nigab she wears an expensive suits that she shows it only in house. Women from south Asian countries came to live under horrible situation in the same country, to work hard and sent money to their poor families © Maro Kouri 933 A young girl-mother, member of the Massai tribe, in a Longido village near Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. © Maro Kouri 934 Stripper Anna Dallas holds the radiography of her shoulder that changed position while she was dancing on the pole (http://www.protagon.gr/?i=protagon.el.fwtografia&lid=4608) © Maro Kouri 935 Chittagong, Banglasesh; Contrast between a woman dressed in nigab walking on the street and an advertisement-wallpaper showing a woman dressed in west style, talking also on the mobile phone © Maro Kouri 936 Adivagi, 10km from Dhaka, Bangladesh: She is an 'adivagi' 15 years old mother, who lives with her family into a tent made by plastic bags. Everyday she goes around the villages to perform with a monkey ///Αντιβάτζι έξω από από την Ντάκα: Δηλαδή αυτή η μικρομάνα 15 ετών ζει με την φαμίλια της μέσα στο αντίσκηνο που φτιάχνει καθημερινά με νάυλον σακούλες που μαζεύει απο τα σκουπίδια. Από το χάραμα γυρίζει από χωριό σε χωριό μαζί με τον πίθηκο της ο οποίος χορεύει για λίγα ντίρχαμ © Maro Kouri 937 SEWN LIPS, Athens, Greece:The 27-year-old Afghan woman, Wahide Rasuli, went on a hunger strike on 20 January 2011, sewing her mouth. She is living with her three young children in a tent outside the University Propylea asking for asylum. There are known cases of mutilation and burning of women in Afghanistan///Η 27-χρονη Αφγανή Γουαχίντε Ρασούλι ξεκίνησε απεργία πείνας στις 20/1/2011 ράβοντας το στόμα της. Ζει μαζί με τα τρία ανήλικα παιδιά της σε σκηνή στα Προπύλαια ζητώντας άσυλο. Είναι γνωστοί οι ακρωτηριασμοί και εμπρησμοί γυναικών στο Αφγανιστάν. © Maro Kouri 938 Muslim traditional wedding ceremony in a Dhaka wedding center, Bangladesh © Maro Kouri ALBINO TALISMAN Two albino girls in Tanzania, 16-year-old Semeni and 12-year-old Sida, survivors of a criminal attack in the village of Segrama, Lake Victoria. In February 2009, five assassins invaded their hut and cut off the limbs of their 14-year-old sister, Unis Luguisha, who died afterwards. Limbs of albinos are sold illegally for 10.000 $ as talismen for good luck and wealth///Στην Τανζανία οι αλπίνοι έχουν μπει σε ένα εγκληματικό χρηματιστήριο. Μάγοι πουλούν σε προληπτικούς πελάτες, άκρα αλμπίνων προς 10,000 δολάρια, πείθοντας τους ότι φέρνουν τύχη και πλούτο. Στο χωριουδάκι Σεγκερέμα της λίμνης Βικτώρια, η Σεμένι και η Σίντα δεν είδαν την αδερφή τους να σφάζεται, ένα βράδυ που 5 κοκουλοφόροι μπήκαν στην καλύβα τους. Κρύφτηκαν κάτω από τα σκεπάσματα © Maro Kouri 941 Although gender equality is mentioned in the founding manifesto of the Chinese Communist Party, few cases of domestic violence against women ever reach the courts. According to the All-China Women's Federation, more than 30,000 girls are kidnapped every year to be sold as brides or forced to work in brothels///Πεκίνο: Παρότι η ισότητα των φύλων αναφέρεται στο ιδρυτικό μανιφέστο του κινεζικού κομουνιστικού κόμματος, ελάχιστες περιπτώσεις ενδο-οικογενειακής βίας φτάνουν στα δικαστήρια της χώρας. Σύμφωνα με στοιχεία της Κινεζικής Ομοσπονδίας Γυναικών (ACWF) κάθε χρόνο περισσότερα από 30.000 κορίτσια απάγονται για να πωληθούν ως νύφες ή για να εργαστούν σε οίκους ανοχής. © Maro Kouri MKR_006911000 Maori and Rastafarian woman in Ruatoria, New Zealand. The traditional “moku” tatoo on her chin is a verse from the Bible! Maoris usually tatoo on themselves their family tree (“waka”) – men on their hips and face, women on their lips and chin///Μάορι και ράστα φάρι γυναίκα στη Ρουατόρια της Νέας Ζηλανδίας. Το παραδοσιακό τατουάζ "μόκου" στο πηγούνι της γράφει έναν στίχο από τη Βίβλο! Οι μάορι, συνήθως, περιγράφουν το γενεαλογικό τους δέντρο (γουάκα), στα τατουάζ που κάνουν στους γοφούς και στο πρόσωπο οι άντρες, στα χείλη και στο πηγούνι οι γυναίκες. © Maro Kouri 944 In Cappadocia,Turkey, a girl from Nea Karvali (near Kavala, Greece) dances karsilama in a re-enactment of a Cappadocian wedding inside her grandmother's house in Palea Karvali (now called Gelveri). The current Turkish owners of the mansions once owned by Greeks open their doors hospitably///Καππαδοκία: Κοπέλα από την Νέα Καρβάλη της Καβάλας χορεύει καρσιλαμά σε αναπαράσταση καππαδοκικού γάμου μέσα στο σπίτι της γιαγιάς της, στην Παλιά Καρβάλη - το σημερινό Γκιέλβερι. Οι σημερινοί Τούρκοι ιδιοκτήτες των κάποτε ελληνικών αρχοντικών, ανοίγουν φιλόξενα τις πόρτες τους © Maro Kouri 945 Capetown, South Africa: In the muslim suburb Bo-Kaap where in the beggining of the century slaves from Malaisia and Indonesia came to live///Στη μουσουλμανική γειτονιά Μπόου Καπ των κάποτε σκλάβων από την Μαλαισία και την Ινδονησία. Προσπερνώ τα ανακαινισμένα πολύχρωμα σπιτικά και τα τζαμιά του Κέηπτάουν © Maro Kouri 946 Anna, 55 years old, homeless and a drug addict, offers me watermelon in the warm nest she has made herself in the green of Klafthmonos Square in Athens. © Maro Kouri 947 Young mother near Victoria lake, Bukova area © Maro Kouri 948 EDESSA WEDDING: It's never too late for a wedding party in Edessa, Greece. In Pozar natural spa-city, old people who make their holidays and therapy against arthritics for 15 days in the summers. Some nights, they pretend fake marriages to enjoy and to remember their youth!///Στην λουτρόπολη Πόζαρ της Έδεσσας, οι ηλικιωμένοι θαμώνες συνδυάζουν τις διακοπές τους με την θεραπεία των αρθριτικών τους από τα ιαματικά, θειώδη φυdικά μπάνια. Τα βράδυα, θέλουν να διασκεδάζουν και είναι φορές που στην τραπεζαρία της λουτρόπολης στήνουν ολόκληρα γλέντια γάμου! © Maro Kouri 951 KORYDALLOS PRISON, PIREUS, Greece: Under the programme “En Drasi” (“In Action”), women prisoners who stay “clean” participate in a theatre group, which heals their souls///Στο πρόγραμμα "Εν δράση", όσες φυλακισμένες παραμένουν ¨καθαρές" συμμετέχουν στην θεατρική ομάδα που δρα ως θεραπεία στην ψυχή τους © Maro Kouri 952 Tselaladin Rumi devotee, Konya, Cappadocia. The other side of Islam: “Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” North European pilgrim prays in Konya, the town where Jalal ad-Din Rumi, the Sufi mystic poet and founder of the Mevlevi Order, died in the 13th century///"Ας αφήσουμε την ομορφιά αυτού που αγαπάμε να γίνει αυτό που κάνουμε. Υπάρχουν εκατοντάδες τρόποι για να γονατίσεις και να φιλήσεις το χώμα". Ευρωπαία προσκυνήτρια στην Κόνυα της Καππαδοκίας. Tην πόλη όπου άφησε την τελευταία του πνοή τον 13ο αιώνα ο μυστικιστής ποιητής του Σουφισμού και ιδρυτής του τάγματος των Μεβλανά, Τζελαλαντίν Ρουμί © Maro Kouri 35681 Night life at the Fiesta of 15th August in Elche, Valencia, Spain © Maro Kouri 954 Konya, Cappadokia, Turkey: "The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you./ Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want./Don't go back to sleep". Jelaluddin Rumi, Sufi mystic poet./Pilgrims from all over the world dance during the Konya festival in Cappadocia. It is the town where Jalal ad-Din Rumi, the Sufi mystic poet and founder of the Mevlevi Order, died in the 13th century///"Η αύρα το πρωί έχει μυστικά να σου πει./Μην γυρίσεις πλευρό και κοιμηθείς ξανά". Ευρωπαίοι χορεύουν τον χορό των περιστρεφόμενων δερβίσηδων kάθε Δεκέμβριο στην Κόνυα, την πόλη όπου άφησε την τελευταία του πνοή τον 13ο αιώνα ο μυστικιστικός ποιητής του Σουφισμού και ιδρυτής του τάγματος των Μεβλανά, Τζελαλαντίν Ρουμί. Ο μόνος στο Ισλάμ που δέχτηκε την Γυναίκα να προσεύχεται και να γιορτάζει ισότιμα και μαζί με τον άντρα. © Maro Kouri 957 Woman carry her baby in the traditional, african style marsipo, on a ferry boat at Lake Victoria, Bukova city, Tanzania © Maro Kouri Zagori: Villages beyond the mountains Me and my daughters during an assignment in Zagorohoria, Epirus, Norhtwest Greece © Maro Kouri 958 Purnalik neighborhood of Xanthi, Northeast Greece;Μuslim Pomak women celebrate a tradditional wedding ceremony preparing the bride, and decorate her red dress with money, her hands with henna and cover her face. For three days and nights, women will dance in a narrow street of Purnalik, seperated from men who prepare and dance with the groom in another street (sokak) of Purnalik © Maro Kouri 959 58-years old Om Ilkir Nezi is the mother of the 23-years old martyr Hasin Nezi who jumped from the electricity column on 22, December 2010, demonstrating for the corrupted loans. After the first demonstrations that started in Sidi bou Zid on 17, December 2010, ministers of Ben Ali came and promised loans to the young people. Hasin couldn’t take it… © Maro Kouri 960 Aysa Abashi is praying. Professor of kickboxing and graduate of Drama University, unemployed, she worries about the extreem-muslim parties. If they take authority, on October election, then every Tunisian will be obligated to change complete their life © Maro Kouri 961 Agra, India;A newly-wed girl poses outside the Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders of the modern world, built by the megalomaniac Emperor Shahjahan. Half the women of India marry before they are 15 even though the legal age limit is 18///Άγρα, Ινδία:Νιόπαντρη κοπέλα ποζάρει έξω απο το Ταζ Μαχάλ, ένα από τα 7 μοντέρνα θαύματα της ανθρωπότητας, δημιούργημα του μεγαλομανή αυτοκράτορα Shah Jahan. Οι μισές γυναίκες στην Ινδία παντρεύονται πριν μπουν στα 15, παρότι το νόμιμο όριο είναι τα 18 έτη © Maro Kouri 990 Athens 20, January 2010- Anna Dallas works as a strip-dancer at night. Early in the morning, she travels 100 km to go home, to wake up her 11-years old daughter, to prepare for her the breakfast and take her to school. She is a typical mother during the day, and a succesfull strip-dancer during the night. © Maro Kouri 991 Gelveri, Cappadokia, April 6, 2011; Greek teenager Sofia Iosifidi came from her hometown which is Nea Karvali near the city of Kavala, Greece, to revive her grandmothers' customs and dance the folk Greek-Cappadocian music © Maro Kouri 994 Elefsina, 22 km far from Athens, Greece - Roma mother and baby into their shanty which is decorated with an Andy Warhol's poster © Maro Kouri
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