It’s all Greek today. This month’s contribution to the Blog of Funny Names.
Hello Funny Names Fans! For those of you who love the land down under, we are celebrating famed Australian photographer, Polixeni Papapetrou. Her name is pronounced poh-leek-SEE-nee pah-pah-PET-roo. I have been unable to verify if her father had a pet kangaroo.
Sorry folks, there were no public domain photos available, but you can check our her collection at her website, which includes a self portrait (hint, she’s the first photo on the top left of the collection).
Her parents, Andreas and Eftihiya (nee Xilinakis) Papapetrou, moved to Australia from Greece. Polixeni, a spring baby, was born in Melbourne, November 21, 1960. She always felt different from the other children she grew up with. The food her family ate, the way they looked and other traditions set them apart.
She studied law and art at Melbourne University, graduating in 1984. She started her career as a lawyer. She once said, “I…
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