An exhibition of historical photographs

27 September 2024 – 31 January 2025

On Friday 27 September the exhibition entitled ‘Mount Athos and Meteora 1929: Princeton’s hidden treasure’ was opened at the Maliotis Cultural Center in Boston, USA. The opening ceremony began with a welcome address by  Mrs. Markela Patitsa, Director of the Cultural Center, which was followed by an address by Mr. Anastasios Douros, Director of the Mount Athos Center, who conveyed the greetings of the Mayor of Thessaloniki and President of the Mount Athos Center’s Board of Directors Mr. Stelios Angeloudis, along with those of the other members of the Board. Finally, an address was also given by Mr. Chris Mellen, President of the Board of Directors of the Mount Athos Foundation of America, who mentioned the work being done by the Foundation to support the Athonite Republic.     

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These addresses were followed by presentations of the archive and the exhibition. Mrs Julia Gearhart, Director of the Visual Resources Collection of the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, talked about the discovery of the films in the barrel and the steps that were taken to digitise the material and connect it with the photographic material that already existed in another part of the archive. Next, Mr. Anastasios Douros, who curated the exhibition, presented the exhibition material and talked about the travellers, the quality of the photographs, and the separation of the material into different units, whilst also mentioning the brief but fascinating stories that lay behind the photographs in the exhibition. Immediately afterwards, the film shot by the three travellers on Mount Athos and Meteora in 1929 was presented.   

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The exhibition was organised by the Mount Athos Center of Thessaloniki in collaboration with the Department of Art and Archaeology of Princeton University in the USA and the Mount Athos Foundation of America, together with the support of the Maliotis Cultural Center in Boston, and will continue to run at the Center until 31 January 2025.               

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