ABANDONED AND SHUNNED

Ten hotels, taverns and residential buildings, which Eberhard Vogler photographed during one of his trips to Greek, tell their story about a Country caught between national bankruptcy and rescue.

Once busy and famous hotels and tavernas have been abandoned and shunned. Pretty and handsome buildings that were the pride of an entire town in their prime become an eyesore for a whole region. Wellkept buildings lose their lustre, fall into disrepair and are left to decay. Where in better days, many people found “work and bread”, unemployment now reigns.

Building projects which had been started were not continued. Instead, they became ruins and disfigured the landscape. As a result, what was meant to be a new home for their future is degenerating into a memorial.

Will these buildings be completed, put back into use or finally abandoned and thus left to themselves and nature?

Who knows?

At the moment, they are in a state of "in-between".

The owners of the buildings are even worse off. Their state of mind is between disappointment and hope. They are saddened they cannot continue their building projects.

They experience how they lose control over their livelihoods and have to leave their properties to their own until they are destroyed and can no longer be used.

As more and more hotels and tavernas close, fewer and fewer guests come. More people lose their jobs and move away. Instead of wealth and prosperity, poverty spreads.

Building land wrested from nature is reclaimed by nature. But, unfortunately, the landowners have invested time, energy and money.

They may even have gone into debt and now have to watch as birds, goats, and donkeys move into their homes.