Parthenon, Athens, 2024.

Written By Campbell Mattinson

Peak season, Pantheon, Athens, Greece. Displayed as a print, Campbell Mattinson.

Sunglasses are advised. And sunscreen. And a hat. And a collar that you can turn up. The Parthenon on the acropolis in Athens, Greece, in 2024. It’s one of those places where the brightness of the crowd, and the blueness of the sky, become as much a part of the scene, and the experience, as the dominance of the stone, or the monument. I like this photograph because of its colour, movement, wind and chaos. It’s a tourist shot, as art.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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