Betrayal in Santorini
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 09.17.03 | 1:30 AM ET
Photographs can lie. Especially travel-related photographs. Thomas Swick recently visited the Greek island of Santorini, one of the world’s most photographed places. Walking among the whitewashed buildings, among legions of other visitors, it hit him: [I]n all those pictures there are never any people. And, not seeing a human presence, we imagine it: the old sea captain fingering his beads, the whiskered widow draped in black. People as picturesque as their surroundings,” the South Florida Sun-Sentinel travel editor writes in his latest dead-on column. “And in Santorini, in summer, they don’t exist. It’s not just that the streets are crammed with tourists, they are depleted of locals. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a place so completely given over to tourism.”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
