Christy Lefteri

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‘The fire that ripped through Mati, killing dozens of people, took place on 23 July 2018; three years later, most people still looked frightened.’ Photograph: Yannis Kolesidis/EPA

During the summer of 2021, I flew to Greece to learn more about the wildfires there. I wanted to hear people’s stories, to understand what it meant to be displaced by environmental disaster. I have family in Greece and Cyprus and the approach of each summer causes a lot of anxiety. That year, fires were raging in Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Croatia and Cyprus, and I was three months pregnant. Feeling Evie growing inside me made me wonder what kind of world she would live in – and made me all the more determined to learn as much as I could about what people had experienced.…  Seguir leyendo »