I first wrote this post in May of 2025 when my new book, Lifelines, had just been published, so I thought I would update a few things now that the US edition and the UK paperback are out as well. The story, of course, remains the same. The book was released nearly twenty-five years after … Continue reading Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece
I first met Matina Galati in a grove of extraordinary juniper trees on a limestone mountain above the Prespa lakes where I live in northern Greece. That day, I’d been walking with the Hungarian gardener and botanist Máté Tálas and two friends of his when Matina arrived from Athens to join the group for the … Continue reading Artwork for Lifelines: Interview with Matina Galati
I'm extremely delighted to announce that I have a new book on the way, which will be published in the UK on May 15th and in a North American edition in Spring 2026. Regular readers of my blog posts here will know that I live above the Prespa lakes, and it's this place that sits … Continue reading Lifelines: new book announcement!
This past spring, I was asked by the Society for the Protection of Prespa if I would be interested in photographing the rivers, streams and waterside forests of Prespa as part of a project called ‘Prespa’s Green and Blue Lifelines’. The idea intrigued me from the very beginning, in large part because it would entail … Continue reading The Theory and Practice of Rivers
"For more than two decades now I’ve lived alongside the pelicans of the Prespa lakes in northern Greece. These birds are—for so many, residents and visitors alike—simply an astonishing and seamless part of being here. There is no Prespa without pelicans. In summer, the skies brighten with their flights, as hundreds of birds, their wingspans … Continue reading The Spirit of the Wetlands
Julian Hoffman 