We fell in love with the Messinia region of Greece many years ago when we discovered it on a couple of road trips around the Peloponnese. The area is immersed in history from the archaic period to more recent…simply pick a point in time one is interested in and jump in. Away from the suburbs of Kalamata the landscape soon becomes very rural and begs discovery. Earlier in the summer we returned on a journey of rediscovery and were relieved to find that the passing decades had been kind and not experienced too much in the way of development.

I took along a Leica CL camera body with TL 35mm and 60mm lenses to record our time spent there.