George Tatakis
Greece, through local dress.
A photographic atlas of traditional dress, organised by region and place.
ExploreWhy this exists
Not a catalogue. Place, through dress.
Across Greece, local dress takes different forms from place to place. This section brings those differences together through photography — keeping the clothing connected to the people and settings that give it meaning.
By region
Move across Greece geographically and discover local forms of dress within each region.
By place
Explore individual towns, villages and islands through the photographs connected to them.
With context
Follow related stories and field notes to understand more than the image alone can show.
How it is built
Research before the frame.
Research
Regional dress is approached through local knowledge, existing collections and cultural context.
Collaboration
The photographs depend on people who know, preserve, prepare and wear these forms of dress.
Photography
The photographs are deliberately composed and directed in black and white, bringing dress, gesture, architecture and landscape into a single visual language.
Dress belongs to more than the body.
The photographic project
Caryatis
The photographic core of Local Costumes grows from Caryatis, George Tatakis’s long-term study of women in traditional dress across Greece.
In My Greece Atlas, the work is reorganised by region and place — becoming part of a wider way to explore Greek culture geographically.
Part of My Greece Atlas
One layer of a larger Greece.
Local Costumes sits alongside Traditional Events inside a growing cultural atlas — connecting traditions to geography, photography and context.
Created and curated by
George Tatakis
A photographer and filmmaker based in Athens, working across Greek culture, ritual, traditional dress, identity and place through long-term photographic projects.
His work includes Ethos and Caryatis and has been exhibited and published internationally.
My Greece Atlas
Greece’s living traditions, curated
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