George Tatakis
Traditional Events of Greece
A personal field guide to rituals, festivals and local customs across the country.
ExploreWhy this exists
Not an archive. A living tradition.
Traditional Events of Greece is a personally curated guide to rituals, festivals and communal customs across the country — built from years of travelling, photographing and researching for Ethos.
By date
Find rituals and celebrations taking place during a particular journey or season.
On the map
Move across Greece geographically and discover traditions connected to each place.
With context
Understand what happens, where it comes from and why the custom matters.
How it is built
Fieldwork before features.
Research
Dates, sources and local context are checked and refined over time.
Fieldwork
Many entries grow from direct experience and repeated journeys across Greece.
Photography
The visual language comes from George Tatakis’s long-term work on Greek culture, identity and place.
Tradition survives because people continue to practise it.
The atlas is growing
This is only the first layer.
Over time, the project may connect events with the wider cultural world around them.
Created and curated by
George Tatakis
A photographer and filmmaker based in Athens, documenting Greek ritual, traditional dress, identity and place through long-term fieldwork and black-and-white photography.
His work has been exhibited internationally and is held in museum collections, including the Benaki Museum.
Before you travel.
Dates and details can change because of weather, local decisions, religious calendars or other circumstances. Treat this as an editorial guide and always confirm locally before travelling.
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