“Spyros signed the Memorandum and the next day we broke up”. Just 10 words are enough to give a political dimension to the end of a long relationship and to make the great love sacrificed on the altar of the Greek economic crisis a best seller. Especially when the main character of this love story is Papandreou’s chosen, the former Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Spyros Kouvelis. His signature on the austerity measures in 2011 was the end of his relationship with the famous photographer, Mrs Stefania Mizara.

This interesting story is unfolded in the pages of a book – photo album written by Mrs Stefania Mizara entitled “Democracy Game Over”, that was presented recently and describes the crisis in the couple’s relationship through the lens of the events of memorandum period in Greece.

As BBC mentions “consists of a series of pictures from Greece, mixing personal images with those of the unrest in the country during a time of financial crisis”.

Stefania Mizara was opposed to Spyros Kouvelis’s choice to accept Papandreou proposal to run as a candidate of PASOK, who was later elected, but as she said she supported him.

However, for Mrs Mizara the year of 2011 with the collapse of the country and the dynamic appearance of “Indignant” Greeks at Syntagma square represents the current trend in photography as a component of an artistic totality. But it is also a year of major changes in her personal life after ending her relationship with former Deputy Minister for Foreign Affair. “On 29 June 2011 violent clashes between police and demonstrators occurred outside the Parliament whereas the MPs were voting to accept the requirements of the European Union to impose austerity measures. Spyros voted these measures. We broke up the next day”.

Although, Mrs Mizara may characterise herself as a fanatically anti-memorandum person, she created the material used in rabid and hysterical anti-Greek propaganda of some of the German media when our country was trying to balance on the financial cliff. She is the associate photographer of German newspaper “Bild”. She literally took by the hand the German journalist Paul Ronzheimer and generously offered him photographic evidence on events occurred in Mykonos showing rich people having fun, spending a lot of money while saying that they don’t pay taxes, thus contributing to creating the derisive headlines and articles for Greece published by the newspaper, which frustrated even German citizens.