Greek Election

After five years of economic meltdown Greece’s critical 25th of January election resulted in left-wing Syriza victory, under Alexis Tsipras, ending decades of two party rule by conservative New Democracy and centre-left PASOK. Extreme-right Golden Dawn party came third, despite its leadership detained pending trial on charges of belonging to a criminal organisation. Bringing to power the first anti-austerity party in Europe, the Greek election result represents the first rumblings in 2015 of potential political and economic earthquakes on the European horizon.

Gerasimos Koilakos is a freelance photographer based in Athens, Greece. He studied photography at the Leica Academy and began his career in archaeological photography before turning to photojournalism. Through editorial assignments and personal projects, he documents social, political, and economic issues, with a particular focus on identity and culture in the global context. His work has been published internationally in Newsweek, Le Monde, Courrier International, Le Figaro, Le Point, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Handelsblatt, Internazionale, L’Espresso, D la Repubblica and Amnesty Journal.