A body of work by Yannis Kontos will be on exhibit at the Frissiras Museum in Athens from January 24 - May 15, 2007. The exhibit spans four subject areas covered by Kontos.

Sierra Leone, Life as an Amputee tells the story of Abu, a victim of the horrific amputations perpetrated by rebel soldiers during the recent civil war in Sierra Leone.

In Aporias, Kontos takes us to such locales as Iraq, Kosovo and Pakistan in an effort to highlight the topic of conflict arising from opposing or incompatible views.

In Kulina, we are transported to a Serbian mental institution treating children either partially or completely disabled. Kontos' lens captures an institution struggling to care for some 650 patients in terrible living conditions where food and water are lacking, wardrobe needs are limited to mere rags and medical care is generally inadequate.

Finally, in Red Utopia, Kontos' diligent eye probes life in North Korea, in extremely trying circumstances. Inside Asia's "hermit kingdom," photography is stricty limited to that which official minders permit to be captured on film. Smuggling illicit images out of the country, Kontos has succeeded at providing incites into everyday life in one of the world's last Stalinist holdouts.

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Aporias: Kosovar children loot the abandoned homes of fleeing Serbs in Kosovska Mitrovica, some 40 kilomters
northwest of Pristina.

Sierra Leone: Life as an Amputee: Abu holds his youngest son, Morris, at the family's shelter at a camp
for amputees.

Kulina: Sixteen-year-old Alen Alioski, a resident at the Kulina mental institution.

Red Utopia: A North Korean boy looks on while standing inside a Pyongyang subway station.