Silo, Volos seafront

Dimitris Letsios (1910-2008)
An important figure in postwar Greek photography, self-taught Letsios depicted mainly the landscape and common people of Thessaly, with an emphasis in the Pelion mountain, as well as Volos, his city of birth. His work runs the traditions and popular art of the countryside in architecture, costumes, rituals during the postwar period, that were gradually marginalized by modernity. His early ecological interests during the sixties led him to depict the drainage of lake Carla. In his work Letsios has also consistently attempted to honor the perseverance of the Greek woman of the countryside after the war, often in conditions of deprivation and absolute poverty. The archive of Dimitris Letsios belongs to MOMus – Thessaloniki Museum of Photography.