Thank You very much for taking the time to visit this page.
MOTIVATION
Recently, after a period of hesitation and worries, I decided to take the risk and quit a job in which I was feeling economically and emotionaly exploited. It took me months to find the courage, and listening to other people's stories it seems that in this period of the so called 'economic crisis' employers have a great excuse to exploit and disregard working rights and undermine living conditions for profit. It seems to me that we were blessed with rights that we take for granted (vacations, 8 hour shift, weekends, insurance, healthcare ets) and rarely realise that they were established jut a few decades earlier through fights and huge sacrifices.
FILM PROJECT
On the 15th December 2009 me and my girlfriend, Eleni Karozi, started a film project shooting slow motion video portraits with a DSLR camera, which we started to upload on Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/movingfaces).
Our aim is to shoot and upload 1.000 of those video portraits of people from all walks of life. This
process will likely take us about 2 years.
When we were reading statistics we often came across huge numbers standing for human lives. We thought that by exposing a viewer to the mass of 1.000 moving faces, which nobody would have the time to browse through entirely, she or he would re-evaluate the meaning behind numbers we happen to read in surveys
CHARITY
Inspired by a friend, (http://www.justgiving.com/Georgios-Cherouvim) that used this site for a charity a couple of months ago, alongside a big cycling endeavour of his, and considering that millions of people do not have the option to simply 'quit a bad job' we decided to start this page alongside the portrait project and possibly inspire some people to donate to an organisation called Anti Slavery International (www.antislavery.org). The project and the charity are two parallel activities however. We have to make clear that we do not take any money from the donations made on this site. We donated a bit of money ourselves after we visited the organisations site and informed ourselves on modern day slavery and we simply encourage you to read some of the facts they list there and decide for yourselves.
The following part of the message was ready made from Just Giving and I leave it as is...
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