Café Karpathos Photo

Photographer’s Note

The café in beautiful downtown Diafani, 1980.

The sign above the door announces that the proprietor is Nikolas Protopapa, a not-so distant relative of mine. He was deceased at the time, so the café was run by his wife and daughter. When I arrived in Diafani, I was immediately ushered into the café and shown a photograph of my grandfather and his family, including my 6-year-old father, taken in Alexandria, Egypt around 1932. It was their only clue to the fate of my ancestor, who had left the island around 1912 to seek his fortune abroad.

None of his children ever returned to Karpathos. I was the first to come back to the island. A visit I will never forget.

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doubay (5043) 2007-11-17 15:50

Gia su Christo!
Apli, ala siginitiki fotografia apo mia Ellada pu echi chathi pleon, nomizo akoma ke sto Diafani ke tin Olymbo. I dio ginekes mus thimizun tin giagia mu, pu mechri ton thanato tis kikloforuse me tin paradosiaki lefkaditiki podia akoma ke stin Athina. Ektos apo tin fotografia fisika poli siginitiki ke i sinoptiki ikogeniaki istoria pu parathetis. Ke afto ena komati istorias pu pelon echi klisi, kathos i elliniki diaspora stin anatoliki Mesogio - meta apo tris chiliades chronia - echi pleon papsi ke afti na ifistate.
Chereto
Andreas

zo_tos (1084) 2007-11-18 6:29

geia sou christo,
uperoxi stigmi pou sigoura 8a sumainei polla geia esena, se euristoume pou ti moirastikes edw,
filika, stratos

Glint (3074) 2007-11-18 7:22

Hello Chris,
a lovely and interesting image with a poignant note. But this was taken so long ago, have you been back since. What is the up to date story? I hope it is a happy one. Have you returned and peopled the island with little Protopapas?
regards
Bev

ifanik (20542) 2007-11-19 4:23

Geia soy Xrhsto
Very beautiful picture from traditional Greece that exists still
Beautiful frame and believes that they will be very beautiful and B/W
Dared workshop in order to we see that they will be
HOPE YOU LIKE
Nikos

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manolis_meleiss (0) 2007-12-22 11:46

HRISTO GIASSOU
STI FOTO POU EHIS STO KAFENIO STO DIAFANI EINAI I GIAGIA MOY MAZI ME TIN THIA MOY KAI TO VASS. SOFILAS. ESY PIOS EISE?
AN EINAI KAI THELIS STILEMOY E.MAIL GIA NA GNORISTOYME PERISSOTERO.
VRISKOME STIN GALLIA
KALES GIORTES PANTDA ME YGIA KAI HARA manolis