It was a heavy day for photographer Katia Christodoulou on a day in October 2020 when she saw the enclosed area of Famagusta for the first time since the Turkish invasion in 1974, "a deeply wounded city left to the ravages of time" as she says, drawing a parallel with Constantine Cavafy's poem "The Windows" in which he writes that "in these dark chambers, where I spend/ heavy days, up and down I wander/ to scratch the windows".
The CNA photographer, with the memory of Famagusta slowly fading with the passage of time and the refugees "leaving" life one by one, highlights the present of Famagusta, dark and silent, through her photography exhibition entitled "ContreVentsetmarées - Against the winds of the times" which consists of 36 photographs showing windows of Famagusta from the era of Frankish rule until
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