Eleven and twenty one! The time when time froze on February 28, 2023. The Intercity passenger train running the Athens-Thessaloniki route and the commercial train heading from Thessaloniki to Larissa collide head-on at the height of Tempi
The greatest railway tragedy in Greek history. 57 passengers dead, most of them students returning to their place of study after the Halloween break.
About a year and a half later, 28 photojournalists from all over Greece present the moments they captured with their cameras, in an exhibition organized by the Union of Photojournalists of Greece, in Larissa.
Among the first to stand in front of the photos with tears streaming down their faces, were the parents of the young people who went missing. Claudia Latta’s mother, Vaius Vlacho’s mother. “We will not stop until the memory of our children is vindicated” they say with one voice.
The camera captured the horror in the wreckage of the trains, the despair and pain in the hospitals where relatives are asking to be informed of the fate of their own people, the human river that poured into the streets asking for light to be shed on the circumstances of the terrible accident
As the president of the Hellenic Photojournalist Union states, the purpose of their initiative is one and only. Let the tragedy not be forgotten, let plenty of light be shed on its causes, let those responsible pay.
The exhibition operates at the Preventis multi-purpose art space and will last for a month.
