I met photographer Christina Papas at the portfolio review at the Athens Photo Festival last July. If you have the chance, the APhF is great to visit. It offers main and satellite exhibitions, an extensive photobook exhibition you can apply for without a fee, talks, performances, a Talent Lab program and diverse workshops. It also […]
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Greece Week: Michael Almiroudis: Genius Seculi
If many Greeks say they feel the legacy of 3000 years and more of History, photographer Michael Almiroudis wants the viewer to consider why and how we look to the past. And how we use photography as a medium matters. Across different bodies of work, Michael explores links between past, present and future and crafts […]
Greece Week: Ioanna Sakellaraki: The Truth is In The Soil
For Ioanna Sakellaraki, The Truth is in the Soil started with the loss of her father. But it in fact explores much wider topics of bereavement such as cultural grief rituals, absence and presence, what is real or not, complying or rejecting societal and familial expectations… For this project she visited the last remaining Greek […]
Greece Week: Katerina Tsakiri: A Simple Place
There is this thing about self-portraits that I find particularly intriguing: Japanese artist Tomoko Sawada says of her work “I just trying to change my appearance, looks like not me, but all the pictures is me”; and it’s this almost obvious sounding comment that highlights for me the mind-boggling duality of self-portraiture – the self […]
Greece Week: Ilias Georgiadis: Over.State
Yesterday I mentioned how concerned I was with the risk of looking at imagery and being like an overenthusiastic tourist that finds everything different or exotic while preparing for Greek week. But when I first browsed through the work of the APhF Young Greek Photographers from the last few years, I was surprised by the […]
Greece Week: Giannis Manolis: The Hunter, The Woman and The Hut
In July I headed to the Athens Photo Festival (APhF) for the second year in a row. I was already thinking then about how to approach this “Greek week”. “Dutch week” last year had been a great ride (and the work and coordination required even grew my appreciation for Aline who does this every single […]