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Apostolos Ververis (Izmir, Turkey 1900 – Athens, Greece 1980) was first trained in photography at his birthplace, which he abandoned in 1922. He settled in Alexandria (Egypt), opening his own studio in 1927. He opened another studio in Athens in 1936, which closed just before the war. He then returned to Egypt. He worked as a war photographer in the Middle East and moved back to Greece in 1944. He took pictures of the ravages of war caused by the Germans in Greece as well as of the Greek civil war and of the political prisons on Makronisos (Greece), following an assignment by the Ministry of Military Affairs. He settled in Athens in 1948 and closed his photographic studio in Alexandria in 1952.
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Leon Verhaeghe de Nayer (1839-1906) was a Belgian diplomat. He served as Governor of East Flanders (1879-1884) and as an attaché of Belgium in China (1884-1891), Portugal (1891-1896) and Italy (1903-1906). He married Sevastie Fotiadi in 1875.
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Sevastie Fotiadi was C. P. Cavafy’s aunt, his mother’s younger sister. She was married to Leon Verhaeghe de Naeyer, a Belgian diplomat, and died in Paris (France), in 1896.
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Marietta N. Vatimbella (née Grypari, 1881-1966) was married to Nikolaos Vati(m)bella and had three children: Aristarchos, Maro, and Ioannis. Both Marietta and her husband studied in Athens (Greece) and lived in Alexandria (Egypt).
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Auguste Varenhorst was from Hanover (Germany); he started working in Alexandria (Egypt) in 1855. He was the doctor of Said Pasha and of khedives (regents) Ishmael and Tewfik. He was named pasha in 1885. He served as director of the Hôpital des Diaconesses in Alexandria.
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Paul Vanderborght (1899-1971) was a Belgian poet and founder of the literary journal La Lanterne sourde (1921-1931). He lived in Egypt during the 1920s, where he met Cavafy.
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Jacob van Crewel (Jeune) was born in Rotterdam (Netherlands) in 1852. He was, like his father whom he succeeded, a photographer in Antwerp (Belgium), active in the period 1883-1905; he specialized in portraits.
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