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Political meeting. Turkey, 1990. Nikos Economopoulos

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In 1990, Nikos Economopoulos attended a political rally in Yozgat, a city in central Turkey, organized by supporters of the late statesman, İsmet İnönü, the second president of Turkey. Economopoulos could sense that violence was about to erupt among the all-male crowd, but before the photographer’s eyes, a butterfly touched down on the shoulder of a man in front of him. He immortalized this fleeting moment of serenity in an image that became iconic.

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Political meeting in Turkey, 1990.

Digital Fibre Print
Open Edition
Signed

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Nikos Economopoulos was born in the Peloponnese, Greece. He studied law in Parma, Italy, and worked as a journalist. In 1988, he started photographing in Greece and Turkey, and eventually abandoned journalism to dedicate himself to photography.

Economopoulos joined Magnum in 1990, and his photographs began appearing in newspapers and magazines around the world. He has made notable bodies of work in the Balkans, Turkey and his homeland of Greece. He has recently turned to the use of color.

Currently, he is spending most of his time away from Greece, traveling, teaching and photographing around the world, in the context of his long-term On The Road project.