In 2009, the financial crisis hit Greece and left the northern region of Thrace with fewer than 10 working factories and an unemployment rate of 50 percent. Thrace's industrial zone—once a constant stream of activity—was now littered with abandoned buildings and factories.
Nikos Pilos documents this catastrophic loss by photographing industrial ruins in Thrace. Like a ghost town, buildings are empty of people but still contain decorations or office equipment, evoking the feeling that the employees left in a hurry with little forewarning of the crisis to come.
"In Ruins: The Fall of Greek Industry" is featured as part of the Open Society Documentary Photography Project's Moving Walls 21 group exhibition.
View a full selection of images from the exhibition: www.movingwalls.org.
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