My World

On August 26th I arrived in Athens Greece, the place I once called home when I was a child. I was mostly excited but also kind of scared because well, last time I was there was in May of 1996 when I was just 8 years old. Change is always hard to handle and the unknown is always a bit frightening. My husband and I were in awe when we were on the bus from Tirana to Athens, seeing all the beautiful landscapes and travelling by the ocean. We stayed in Athens for about two weeks. We didn’t get to see many things unfortunately because we were busy with a lot of paperwork and figuring out the next travel plans to Paris as well as visiting model agencies for future jobs. We did get to see the Acropolis but kind of from a far. Athens is a place that we will visit again in the future so we weren’t worried about seeing all its beauty on this trip.

As time flew by, we noticed that we hadn’t shot anything in ages so I got in touch with a young talented photographer named Thanos Houtos who helped us out with organizing a shoot for us. He arranged a stylist and a make-up artist that he knew and set up a meeting for us all to talk over ideas. He also figured out which models were in town and available and arranged the model for the shoot so we were lucky to have him co-ordinate and put it all together. It was like having a local producer and really made our lives easier.

Here are the photos I did from that shoot. Enjoy

The team:

• Model: Nilene Krazia (VN Models)
• Stylist: Dimitra Michalakopoulou
• Producer: Thanos Houtos
• Make-up: Despina Gavala