A cycle of exhibitions by Hydra-based artists has already begun at the House & Atelier of Panagiotis Tetsis, in the family home he used as his studio and later bequeathed to the Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece.

Visitors are invited to discover the house where Tetsis cultivated his talent, as well as the early visual stimuli that sparked his artistic journey.

The program of solo exhibitions launched in April and will run through the end of October 2026.

On April 23, the exhibition “DOKOS – A Photographic Journey” opened, featuring material from the archive of Hydra-born pharmacist Evangelos Rafalias. The exhibition will run until May 8, 2026.

It includes 35 photographic works and an album of 50 photographs dating from 1920 to 1962, capturing excursions and moments of leisure of Hydra residents on the beautiful island of Dokos.

This collection forms a rare photographic journey through time, drawing from the archive of Evangelos Rafalias. Through the lens of his family—who maintained a summer residence on Dokos—the unseen everyday life of a small, almost isolated world is revealed.

Beginning in the 1920s and spanning a critical historical period, these images are not merely family keepsakes but valuable documents of a bygone era. At their core lies the life of the island’s few permanent inhabitants: people of the land and livestock farming, who with persistence and resilience sustained this rocky outpost of the Saronic Gulf.

Dokos of that time, although geographically autonomous, remained inextricably linked to Hydra. This professional and social relationship emerges through the faces and scenes of the archive, reminding us that the history of great places is often written in the quiet corners of their neighboring islands.

The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Themistoklis Rafalias, author of the book Dokos.

Curated by Annalina Fotopoulou.