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Slide (colour); Stavrakas, a Greek shadow puppet character, made with a joint movement at the hip and a hole on the shoulder where the karagiosopecte (puppeteer) can manoeuvre the character; Stavrakas is designed with a moustache, and wearing a brown hat, a brown jacket, a green waistcoat, a white shirt, tie, a red garment wrapped around his waist with a knife tucked in, green striped trousers and kolomboi (worry beads) hanging from his trouser pocket; Athens, Greece. 35mm slide, polyester
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