Athens, the morning of April 21st, 1967. Maria Kalavrou is working in her fiancé’s dry cleaning business. On the radio, she hears the military junta’s decree: stay in your houses, anyone found in the streets will be shot. Maria shuts up shop and hurries home, just a few steps away. She never arrives. There’s a bullet through her throat.  
 
The official report simply states, “Cause of death: Accident”. Her coffin is sealed, there’s an official injunction that it must never be opened. Her fiancé sets about taking Maria’s body back to her birthplace, the village of Zagora. 
 
In this new book, James Becket’s remarkable photographs, which document the Greek village of Zagora, Pelion in August 1967, subtly reflect the shifts that took place on a local scale in the dramatic first year of the Greek Junta – a regime of right-wing colonels that forcibly ruled the country from 1967 to 1974.  
 
Apart from their anonymised appearance in a Swiss magazine at the time, the images in this book have never been published. In a time of growing autocracy, political suppression and censorship, a comprehensive collection of these images will now be published for the first time.