Now on Kythera-Family
You can't have visited Kythera without having noticed the incredible stone walls in fields, along mountain ridges, in the old houses now in ruins... You might even have a few interesting photos of them in your albums - I know I do. How many thousands of hours were spent removing the stones from the fields and using them in walls to demarcate the boundaries or simply to create an enclosure for the precious animals almost all Kytherian families used to keep? They are as much a part of our Kytherian inheritance as the houses and olive trees. It might sound a bit far-fetched, but I think they have the potential to put Kythera on the cultural map (yet again) in the form of photographs in an exhibition and/or a book. So here's my offer: If we can get together at least one hundred high-class pictures of those beautiful walls over the next year, I will personally see to it that it is put together in a book called "The Great Walls of Kythera". If you're handy with a camera you've still got a year to take some great pictures of them, but perhaps you already have some. Or if one of your relatives dabbled in photography, go through their old slides and find The Walls. I've just created a new category in the Island Photography section of the site called "Great Walls", to which you can (easily) upload your pictures. After a year we'll see what we've got and contact those whose pictures we'd like to use for their permission (and for high-resolution versions of the pictures - the one's on the site won't do for the printed page). Everyone whose wall picture(s) appear in the book will receive a few free copies of the book. If you think I might have had too much sun in Greece this year and gone wall-nuts, then I can assure you that the walls have huge aesthetic potential. I've uploaded a few pictures to the site already and you can see for yourself what I mean: Great Walls. I look forward to seeing your pictures posted soon. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me at the email address below.
