As part of the teaching of the Skills Workshop course, students of the 1st Experimental High School of Larissa made an educational visit to the exhibition of Larissa photojournalists “Daniel” on Wednesday 2nd October 2024.
The visit was part of the workshop “Climate Change – Natural Disasters, Civil Protection” of the thematic unit “Caring for the environment”, which is taught in the 2nd High School. At the same time, it is a continuation of the actions carried out by our school in the framework of its participation in the Erasmus+ programme “Shaping the future together”, which focuses on environmental sustainability.
The students of our school were guided to the exhibition by photojournalists who organized it and their photos are exhibited in the “Takis Tloupas” hall of the Hatzigiannio Cultural Centre of the Municipality of Larissa.
During the tour, the students had the opportunity to view, with the helpful guidance of the photojournalists, photographic material that highlighted the unprecedented extent and intensity of the floods that followed the “Daniel” bad weather in September 2023. The exposed photographs impressed upon every viewer the gravity of the consequences of the phenomenon for the animals, the material infrastructure and the inhabitants of the affected areas of Thessaly.
In addition, they were informed by the organisers of the exhibition about the conditions under which the photographs were taken and the objective difficulties of successful photography in the midst of a natural disaster, while the value of photography for the wider public as a means of accurately representing external reality was presented. A common assumption was the conclusion that preventing the forgetting of events – a goal for the achievement of which photographic recording can play a crucial role – is a necessary condition for raising the awareness of our fellow citizens and activating them towards the prevention of future disasters of similar magnitude.
At the end of the visit, our students will have the opportunity to process the information they have gained, combining it with their personal experience, to draw useful conclusions about the link between this natural disaster that has affected the area where they live and the phenomenon of climate change, and to reflect on the actions necessary to preserve the viability and sustainability of the ecosystems to which we belong.
The visit of sections B1, B2 and B4 was organised by the teachers responsible for teaching the activities laboratory course in these sections, Eftychia Landavou and Evangelos Sakkas, accompanied by teachers Filitsa Bakalopoulou and Dimitra Tsaousi.