An exhibition of photographs by American photographer Robert A. McCabe will open on the Cycladic island of Paros on March 28, organizers said.
The Environmental and Cultural Park of Paros said the exhibition, titled “Memories from the Aegean,” will run through September 30 at the Porto Aoussa art space in the port settlement of Naoussa.
The show features 82 photographs selected by McCabe in collaboration with curator Costas Vidakis. The images depict life on islands across the Aegean Sea from the 1950s to the late 1970s – including what are now cosmopolitan tourist destinations such as Mykonos and Santorini – before the rise of mass tourism and modern transportation.
They capture everyday moments and island landscapes: children playing in dusty courtyards, women standing at the thresholds of their homes, fishermen returning from the sea – small, ordinary scenes rendered timeless through McCabe’s lens.
McCabe was born in 1934 in Chicago and grew up in Rye, New York. He first traveled to Greece in 1954 as a Princeton University student, a trip that shaped his photographic career.
On later visits, he traveled extensively across the Aegean, photographing the Greek islands, and in 1957 produced a series of images for National Geographic.
His work has been exhibited in major museums, including the Acropolis Museum, the Museum of Cycladic Art, and the Benaki Museum.
Most recently, in January 2026, the Athens Art Gallery presented an exhibition and photographic album titled “Delphi in the 1950s through the Lens of Robert McCabe.”
