Nelly's :: Delphic Festivals, Io from Prometheus Bound (Delphi, 1930) | src Benaki museum

Santorini, Greece, ca. 1925 - by Nelly / Elli Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari (1899 - 1998), Greek

Elly Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari (Nelly’s)

Farmer woman with bale

Elli Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari 

November. Elizaveta “Lila” Nikolska in the Parthenon, Athens, Greece, 1930

Photo: Nelly (Elli Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari)

Elli Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari

Elli Souyioultzoglou Seraidari:  Athlete, Athens  (1927)

Nelly's (Elli Souyoultzoglou-Seraidari) Dancer Mona Paiva posing naked at the Acropolis, 1925

Elli Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari. Epirus, Greece, 1930.

Nelly's (Elli Souyoultzoglou-Seraidari) :: Paris Opera Comique dancer Mona Paiva posing naked at the Acropolis, October 1925 © Benaki Museum / Nelly's retrospective 2023

“Φαλαγγιτισσα Ασκουμενη Εις Τον Ελεύθερος Ακοντισμός / Phalangist Practicing Freestyle Javelin” Elli Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari a.k.a. Nelly 1940 Postcard depicting a member of Εθνική Οργάνωσις Νεολαίας (Ethnikí Orgánosis Neoléas / National Youth Organisation), a youth organisation of the authoritarian Καθεστώς της 4ης Αυγούστου (Kathestós tis tetártis Avgoústou / The 4th of August Regime) led by General Ioannis Metaxas. Photography is attributed to the Regime’s prolific photographer dubbed “the Greek Leni Riefenstahl”.

Elly Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari (Nelly’s)

From the “Constructions and Buildings in New York” series

Harvest scene, Epirus, Greece, ca. 1930 - by Nelly / Elli Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari (1899 - 1998), Greek

Elli Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari