First United Kingdom Showing of Robert McCabe’s Work Opens at the Hellenic Centre

LONDON.- Pioneering photographer Robert McCabe first visited Greece in 1954 and captured a way of life that that has now all but vanished. Sixty iconic images from his travels around the country will be exhibited at the Hellenic Centre starting today, under the aegis of the Centre and The Museum of Cycladic Art. After important exhibitions in the USA and Europe, this is the first UK showing of McCabe’s work. Greece has changed dramatically since the artist made the pictures some fifty years ago. During what he describes as an “enchanted” time, McCabe recorded the landscape, villages and traditions of a country that was recovering from civil war, and where tourists were few and far between. The islands and villages still maintained their ancient and distinctive

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