Figure 1.--During the World War II Occupation, Paraschos managed to secretly take about 1,000 pictures in the streets of Athens with at the risk of his own life.
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Figure 1.--During the World War II Occupation, Paraschos managed to secretly take about 1,000 pictures in the streets of Athens with at the risk of his own life. |
Kostas Paraschos was born in Kydonies in Minor Asia in 1912. After the Greek-Turkish war his family settle in Athens. He worked as a journalist in numerous Greek newspapers and as a reporter in many countries abroad. During the World War II Occupation, Paraschos
managed to secretly take about 1,000 pictures in the streets of Athens with at the risk of his own life. The authorities were suspicious of street photography. From 1957 to 1970 he was the editor of "I diaplasis ton paidon" the most prominent magazine for school children. His photographic work was published in two albums: I katoche: photografika tekmiria (Athens: Hermes, 1973) and I apeleftherosi (Athens: Hermes, 1983).
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