Visual Arts

A home for Schedia street paper at the Onassis Stegi

Schedia vendors' photographic exhibition

Dates

Tickets

Free admission

Venue

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Monday-Sunday
Time
12:00-21:00
Venue

Information

Tickets

Free admission

General Info

Price list:
Metal prints (glossy): 230 € single (80x60cm) | 280 € double (140x53cm).
Lambda print (mat photographic paper): 40 € single (80x60cm) | 60 € double (140x53cm)
Postcard (mat): 3 € (28x13cm)

Introduction

Photographs by 8 men and women who make their living selling Schedia street papaer. See the city through their eyes, buy their work and help them support themselves.

Eighty Athenian images captured on camera by eight men and women who make their living selling "Schedia", Athens’ street paper, are to be shown in an exhibition at the Onassis Stegi. The photographs are for sale and the proceeds will go in their entirety to their creators.In October 2013, eight "Schedia" vendors, all of whom are or have been homeless, were each given a camera. Their mission: to capture Athens life from their own unique perspective; to record what catches their eye and captures their imagination; to show us the city through their eyes without restraints or limitations. The respected photojournalist Nikos Pilos undertook to give them some photography lessons and to help them see beyond the lens.This exhibition is neither the beginning or the end of the collaboration between the Onassis Stegi, the Onassis Foundation and "Schedia" magazine - a meaningful relationship based in equality and rooted in acceptance of the fact that anyone can find themselves in any situation and an acknowledgment that anyone who turns a blind eye to what it going on around them cannot be considered a citizen.

The Schedia vendors’ photographic exhibition at the Onassis Stegi is a singular event: because it helps us to see both more and more clearly; because it broadens our horizons.

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Schedia is Greece’s only street paper. Like all the members of the International Network of Street Papers (INSP), Schedia is not sold at newsagents, kiosks and the usual points of sale but exclusively on the street by registered vendors. Vendors come from socially vulnerable groups: the homeless, the unemployed and those who live below the poverty line.

Half of the 3 € cover price goes straight to the vendor, so the paper provides a unique opportunity for sellers to earn a living wage as well as a means of escaping social isolation and exclusion. It provides men and women who find themselves on the street with one more reason to rebuild their lives.

Credits

Photographers
Lefteris Eleftherakis, Bessy Zachari, Giannis Kotsos, Christos Bakogiannis, Alexandros Nanos, Matina Paschali, Ioulia Symeonidou, Giannis Fokas
Curated by
Nikos Pilos (photojournalist)
Organized by
Onassis Stegi, Schedia street paper
With the support of
Onassis Foundation
Sponsors / Partners