The magic of Greece's customs captured in stills

A boy dressed in a blue robe pulls a face at the lens, his energy and youth out of place in the austere atmosphere of the religious procession with the icon he's a part of in the village of Prokopi on Evia. In another photograph, nine young women and girls walk single file along a trail carrying a groom's dowry on their heads to the bride's house. In the background you can just see a ridge of Karpathos's Mount Olympos, but there is a strange, almost surreal quality about the scene, as though the young women were on a different planet.

These are just two of hundreds of images that can be seen on pculiar.com, a new photography website on the weird and wonderful customs and rites that take place mostly in Greece but also other parts of the world. Sitting on the comfortable mustard sofas of their Athens offices, photographers George Tatakis and Michael Pappas of the firm Reflex...

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