and the public, the spectacle and the spectator, the inclusion and exclusion, the legal and the illegal, the native and the foreign.

The goal is to collect images, photographs and other visual material, from all the different sides of the social grid and then evaluate them accordingly. The archiving it will be based on the origin of each photograph, the subject and finally its anthropological attributes. A part of this new archive will be presented for the first time in the project-publication Archive-Public and strives to continue its development as a platform throughout the web site of the Archive-Public project.

Stefanos Tsivopoulos
23.03.2010

CHRONOLOGY

Patras is the third biggest city in Greece of 160,000 population located 220 km south-west of Athens. Dubbed Greece’s Gate to the West, Patras is a commercial hub, whileits busy port is a nodal point for trade and communication with Italy and the rest of Western Europe

The settlement Camp – Patras was located in the eastern part of the city, three kilometres from the port of Patras. It was originally built by Iraqi Kurds outside the city on the same site, yet the city itself had grown towards the outskirts to include the settlement area, while the settlement itself has also grown enormously after the NATO campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. After that more than 95 percent of the people originated from Afghanistan.

Initially, the Afghanis used the settlement mainly as a temporary stopover before travelling to Italy. Yet after the Dublin treaty, those who manage to reach an Italian port are returned to Patras by the