The Tempe accident through the lenses of the Hellenic Photojournalist Union (photo & video)

Photo and video: larissanet// Thanasis Kaliakoudas

There was a lot of emotion at the opening of the Greek Photojournalist Union’s exhibition on the Tempe accident, which took place today at the Preventis Publishing House, in the presence of relatives of the victims.

“On February 28, 2023, Hellenic Train’s Intercity 62 passenger train, running the Athens-Thessaloniki route, carrying more than 350 passengers, collided with commercial train 63503 running the Thessaloniki-Larissa route. The two trains were traveling in opposite directions on the same line for about 12 minutes before colliding with each other at 11.21pm. Tragic result of a fatal train accident with 57 dead and at least 85 injured.

The Union of Photojournalists of Greece invited the photojournalists who covered this criminal train accident and the mass demonstrations that followed it throughout the country, to participate in the realization of a photographic exhibition.

The report of E.F.E. with the title “Eleven and Twenty” seeks to contribute to a common effort that will meet with the local community, with unions and mass organizations, farmers, students and students of Thessaly, so that collectively the logic of “let’s go and wherever come out”.

With this report, the Union seeks to put a stone in place so that the feelings of sadness and anger are turned into knowledge for highlighting the eternal causes, so that this crime is not forgotten and not covered up.

To turn into a fight, against the practices that treat our needs as a “cost” for the profits of the few”.