Two sailing yachts at anchor, mountains and a broad blue morning sky
Greece / Summer 2026 / A visual journey

Sea, islands
& the space
between.

Six perspectives on a Greek summer. Sifnos, Athens, three Saronic voyages and the Peloponnese — traced in sea passages, stone paths and changing light.

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AEGEAN TURN — Journeys 2026
June · July · August · SeptemberAt anchor · 14 July 2026
A season in passages.

An island reached by ferry. A city returned to between journeys. Three Saronic voyages and a coastal chapter on the Peloponnese. Places encountered through walking, navigation, photography and film.

01 / The journey index

Six journeys.
Different rhythms.

One island stay, a recurring urban base, three sailing voyages and a coastal journey by land. Athens runs between the departures, returning throughout the summer.

0107–15 JUN 2026SifnosSIFNOS26FERRY / ISLAND PATHS 02JUN–SEP 2026Between city and seaATHENS26RECURRING URBAN BASE / CULTURE 0311–17 JUL 2026The first Saronic passageSAR0711SAILING / ISLAND HARBOURS 0425–31 JUL 2026The islands, revisitedSAR0725CATAMARAN / CHANGING CONDITIONS 0507–17 AUG 2026The southern coastPEL0807OVERLAND / COASTAL EXPLORATION 0622–28 AUG 2026An August circuitSAR0822SAILING / RETURN TO ALIMOS
02 / SIFNOS26 · Cyclades

The island
at walking pace.

On Sifnos08–14 June 2026Whole journey07–15 June 2026Arrival / departureKamares · By ferry

Kastro and Artemonas: two ways of looking out towards the sea.

The journey began in Hamburg on 7 June, continued through Athens and Piraeus, and reached Kamares the following day. Kastro provided the first base; on 11 June, the stay moved to Artemonas.

Days unfolded through village streets, stepped paths and viewpoints: the passages of Kastro, a visit to its archaeological museum, the mills and older houses of Artemonas, and walks through Apollonia and the Petali settlements. Photography and film followed the changing relationship between stone, white surfaces and the sea.

The white passage
The white passage
Rock and open sea
Rock and open sea
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Flowers against whitewash
Flowers against whitewash
A doorway towards the sea
A doorway towards the sea
Windmill and ground geometry
Windmill and ground geometry
The stone path
The stone path
Candle and icons
Candle and icons
An arch towards the horizon
An arch towards the horizon
I / KASTRO

Through the passages

Enclosed lanes open onto exposed edges. The village is encountered through successive thresholds, steps and sudden views.

II / ARTEMONAS

A wider horizon

Village walks, the mills and the view towards Poulati and Kastro formed a different perspective on the same island.

III / KAMARES

The return crossing

On 14 June, a final circuit through Apollonia, Ano Petali and Kastro preceded the ferry departure from Kamares to Piraeus.

03 / ATHENS26 · June–September 2026

Between city
and sea.

Time in the cityRepeated stays, June–SeptemberWays of movingOn foot · Through the city · Towards the coastA recurring baseKallithea · Athens · Alimos

The city was part of the journey, again and again.

Between island crossings and time on the Peloponnese, Athens became a recurring place to walk, read, work and look. Streets and small passages, public art and cultural spaces formed a different rhythm from the days at sea.

A visit to the Elytis Museum on 2 July was followed, on 7 July, by time at the National Library and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. Books, long windows and a view across the city offered another scale of attention. Later visits returned to the canal and its changing evening light.

The city also opened towards the coast. Alimos and the marina connected these urban days with the voyages; a dry-dock visit on 9 July brought the hull and its working surroundings into view. Athens was a place of return as well as departure.

A monumental owl mural above a street in Athens
The city looks back
The sunlit National Library reading room, bookshelves and red chairs
A room made of light
Two working places, one departure 3 more photographs
A book, notebook, coffee and small camera on a library desk
Reading between journeys
The underside of a yacht in a dry dock, framing the marina beyond
Under the hull
Marina in evening light
Marina in evening light
I / THE STREET

Old walls, present voices

Narrow passages and contemporary murals share the same field of vision. The photographs follow their differences without turning them into a single, continuous walk.

II / THE READING ROOM

Light, books and distance

The National Library and the view from the SNFCC brought reading and the wider city into the same day.

III / THE WATERFRONT

The next departure

Canal, coast and marina form distinct edges of the city. The marina photograph from 24 July belongs to the evening before SAR0725 began.

04 / The Saronic journeys

Familiar islands.
Another sea each time.

Three separate voyages from Alimos. Repeated places become different journeys as the wind, the time of day and the approach change.

SAR0711 / 11–17 JULY 2026

The first Saronic passage

An evening departure from Alimos led to Agia Marina on Aegina. The following days moved through Kipoi and Poros towards Tselevinia, Dokos and the deep bay of Mandraki on Hydra. Spetses brought another encounter with the island streets before the final night at Yerolimenas on Poros.

At Dokos, the stillness of Ormos Skindos gave the voyage a different tempo. The passage alternated between the activity of harbours and quieter nights at anchor, returning to Alimos on 17 July.

Follow the documented stages
  1. — Alimos → Agia Marina, Aegina.
  2. — Kipoi, Aegina → Poros.
  3. — Poros → Tselevinia → Dokos, Ormos Skindos.
  4. — Dokos → Hydra, Mandraki.
  5. — Mandraki → Spetses.
  6. — Spetses → Poros, Yerolimenas.
  7. — Poros → Alimos.
A wooden sailing boat beside a stone landing in a sheltered bay
The shore, reached
A white rowing boat tied alongside a sailboat
A smaller passage
A sailing yacht beneath clouds at sunset, with a red reflection on the water
The day folds into water
SAR0725 / 25–31 JULY 2026

The islands, revisited

The second July voyage began on 25 July, with a night passage from Alimos to Agia Marina. Poros, Hydra and Spetses returned to the itinerary, this time aboard a catamaran. Mandraki provided the Hydra anchorage; the onward route included Kounoupi and the bays around Spetses.

Changing conditions shaped the later stages. On 30 July, the yacht moved from Dapia to the shelter of Porto Heli, then continued via Dokos towards Poros. The final passage to Alimos followed on 31 July.

Follow the documented stages
  1. — Alimos → Agia Marina, Aegina, by night.
  2. — Poros.
  3. — Hydra; Mandraki anchorage.
  4. — Mandraki → Kounoupi → Spetses; Baltiza approach.
  5. — Spetses; Zogeria and Dapia.
  6. — Dapia → Porto Heli → Dokos → Poros.
  7. — Poros → Alimos.
A gloved hand on the catamaran helm, the chartplotter and open blue water ahead
A hand on the course
Yachts at anchor in the still water of a summer sunset
Between passages
A person seen from behind on the waterfront, a moon above the houses across the water
The human shore
SAR0822 / 22–28 AUGUST 2026

An August circuit

A third departure from Alimos opened with Agia Marina, followed by Moni and Poros. The route continued to Hydra, Spetses and Dokos before returning through Poros to the mainland.

The sequence gave each island its own day and approach. On 28 August, the last anchorage near Poros gave way to the crossing back to Alimos, closing the summer’s three Saronic voyages.

Follow the documented stages
  1. — Alimos → Agia Marina, Aegina.
  2. — Agia Marina → Moni → Poros.
  3. — Poros → Hydra.
  4. — Hydra → Spetses.
  5. — Spetses → Dokos.
  6. — Dokos → Poros.
  7. — Poros → Alimos.
Anchored yachts silhouetted against an orange evening sky
Before the dark
A masthead light above a yacht, reflected in a dark anchorage
Nocturne I
A sailing yacht with its light reflected in calm water beneath the night sky
Nocturne II
05 / PEL0807 · 07–17 August 2026

The coast,
from the land.

Koroni, Methoni and the landscapes between.

The Peloponnese journey began by bus from Athens to Kalamata on 7 August, continuing to Faneromeni near Koroni. From this base, the days opened onto coastal settlements, bays, fortress spaces and an inland gorge.

Repeated visits to Methoni made room for looking again: walking through the fortress, filming its spaces and exploring the relationship between its surviving forms and the sea. Tsapi and Finikounda offered another coastal rhythm; Polilimnio introduced a landscape of stone and water away from the shoreline.

A JOURNEY BY ROAD, BUS & FOOT
  1. 07 August / ArrivalAthens → Kalamata → Faneromeni; evening exploration of Koroni.
  2. 09 August / Coastal excursionsTsapi and Finikounda.
  3. 12–14 August / MethoniRepeated visits, photography and film around the fortress.
  4. 15–16 August / A change of baseEpiskopi, the coast and an excursion to Polilimnio.
  5. 17 August / ReturnVelika → Petalidi → Kalamata; bus back to Athens.
A stone waterfront and houses in evening light on the Peloponnese
Arrival on the southern coast

A coastal chapter with room for inland detours. The route returned to Athens on 17 August, before the final Saronic voyage.

METHONI / TWO POINTS OF VIEW
Methoni sea tower framed by a weathered fortress wall and stone steps
Through the fortress
The sea tower at Methoni standing above clear blue water
Beyond the wall
Sunlight through clear shallow water, with pebbles in the foreground and the sea beyond
The transparent edge

AFTER THE STONEWater, light,
an open horizon.

06 / Visual field notes

Ways of looking.

A few recurring motifs from the journeys: the texture of a place, the approach from the sea, the pause before moving on.

A Nikon camera beside red sailing ropes on deck in warm evening light
The camera comes aboard
A camera, a book and a small audio recorder on a wooden table
A shore-side working table
01 / STONE

Architecture as a passage

On Sifnos, a wall, a stair and a turn in the lane change the field of vision. In Methoni, the larger spaces of the fortress offer a different scale of walking and looking.

02 / WATER

An island has several arrivals

A harbour, an anchorage and a path from the shore reveal different parts of a place. The repeated Saronic routes made these differences visible.

03 / MOVEMENT

Image-making on the move

Walking, navigating and filming ask for different kinds of attention. The visual work of this summer grew from moving between them: village explorations, sea passages and time spent observing from shore.

A pale beach, a narrow landing and a single bench facing still water
Salamis / A still from the moving-image archive
Moving images / From the channel

The Aegean,
in motion.

Two films by Theodor (Doc) Yemenis. Another way into the landscapes, rhythms and questions behind these journeys.

The player connects to YouTube when you press play. You can also open each film directly on the channel.

07 / Future horizonsAEGEAN CODE ENTERPRISE / CONCEPT IN DEVELOPMENT

From journeys
to lasting forms.

The journeys leave material to work with: photographs, moving images, routes and observations.

AEGEAN CODE explores how that material might become visual essays, publications and carefully shaped creative encounters around place and travel. A possible future direction brings maritime practice into conversation with cultural exploration and image-making.

This remains a developing concept. No travel programme or commercial offer is currently presented here.

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