Original black and white photographs by an artist, marathon runner, and himself, emphasizing the individual and collective effort of this Olympic sport. The unique photographic depiction of the entire route from the mound of Marathon to the finish line at Kallimarmaro. An album that is a true homage to the sport.

Designed with care that beautifully matches the theme's style, the luxury hardcover volume includes 150 black and white photographs published for the first time and printed masterfully under the supervision of the artist himself.

The album Athens Classic Marathon, by internationally renowned photographer Ilias Bourgiotis, unfolds step by step the entire film of the expectations, dreams, ambitions, and psychology of the athletes participating in this sport. In these photos, with the dramatically high contrast of light and shadow, the viewer identifies with the athlete: the passion, the toil, the effort, the persistence, the endurance above all, the endurance of psychology and body, these take center stage here, all illuminated/shadowed by the harsh Attic light.

Even when the familiar images of the 'classic' route intervene in the frame, those that 'adorn' advertisements, random passersby, known and unknown buildings, cars, stray animals, statues, etc., what consistently draws the reader/viewer's gaze, making Bourgiotis' album captivating, is the human body stubbornly struggling to perhaps repeat the legendary words that echoed two and a half thousand years ago at the end of the same route: We have won!