Kritsiopi Panayiota, 81 years old, reacts as a wildfire approaches her house in the village of Gouves on Evia island, Greece on August 8, 2021. Following a long heatwave period, the hottest weather Greece has seen for 30 years, thousands of residents were evacuated by boat after wildfires hit Greece’s second largest island.
Konstantinos Tsakalidis was born in 1986 in Serres, Greece. He graduated from the Department of Informatics of Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki. He has attended the seminars cycle of Photographic Centre Stereosis in Thessaloniki. He is co-founder member of the Greek collective photo agency SOOC (www.sooc.gr) and contributor of Bloomberg news in Northern Greece since 2013. His photographs have been exhibited in group exhibitions, Greek and foreign websites, magazines and newspapers like: NZZ Folio, Die Zeit, De Tijd, The Guardian, La Croix, Huffington Post, Le Monde, Washington Post, The Times, Der Spiegel, NEON, Kapa Magazine, Le Figaro, Al Jazeera etc.
