Frédéric Boissonnas

The Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (momus.gr) presents "Fred Boissonnas and the Mediterranean: A Photographic Odyssey" at the port warehouse complex, comprising 110 works and multimedia applications that encapsulate the evolution of the great late Swiss photographer's vision.

Swiss photographer Frederic Boissonnas made two trips to Thessaloniki, in 1913 and 1919, capturing the northern port city at two important times in its history: during its liberation from Ottoman rule and after the devastation of the 1917 fire that razed almost the entire city center.

It was 105 years ago today that Daniel Baud-Bovy, Frederic Boissonnas and Christos Kakalos became the first three modern-day climbers to reach Mytikas, the highest peak of Olympus, 2.918 meters above the sea. Celebrating the anniversary, Google's Doodle of the day (the illustrations that appear on the search engine's homepage) shows three human silhouettes standing on top of a mountain peak.