Thermi

berries the color of rust

mama dog with her young dog pups

view of Thessaloniki and sea

view to the sea

Toumba Thermi (an Iron Age tell)

How to Make a Really Big Pot

first a disc is made for the base, then 2 large coils are smoothed on

start up the wheel to shape and thin out the walls

He makes his own clay from claybed sources in the surrounding mountains

Meet Giannis, Paliambela's traditional potter and the butane torch he uses to speed up this process for demonstrations

another coil, some more wheel turning

using a tool to help shape

potter as shaman

another coil makes a shoulder

finicky shaping

3 coils later we've reached the neck and rim

oh yeah, he's good.

Thessaloniki

sunset over the bay

These (tough, just tough) Working Conditions

Meet Herakles

my photography assistant

You can bet that behind the scenes of many of my documentary photos for Paliambela was this face

A Ceramicist's View

every piece of pottery that came out of the trenches ended up below my lens-hours spent doing this kind of documentary photo

the pottery was analyzed in these sitas

this here conveys a typical moment. there're bones at the end of the table, a dog at your feet, Niki at the computer, and conversation galore

Ian in the early morning

this is his personality-a little insane and when he runs those ears flap up and down

but he has this face too

Paliambela-in the trenches

Paliambela

in the morning

at dawn we wake