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Dear friends, Photometria Festival 2020 is officially postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Further information about the new dates will be communicated through our social media and website as soon as possible.
In addition, we inform you that due to the above, we are extending the deadline for our contest Photometria Awards 2020 “Stalk me”.
The new deadline is 17 May 20.

Photometria International Photography Festival continuing the promotion of modern photographic creativity, announces a portfolio competition at 1 November – 31st December 2018.

It is requested by the participants one (1) portfolio including fifteen (15) photos of which eight (8) will be chosen. Through these pictures, the photographer addresses a topic of his preference, an idea or even the narration of a story.

The top nine (9) portfolios will be the material of the exhibitions entitled ”Parallel Voices”, and the following ten (10) will be presented as screenings.

The selection of the portfolios will be based on the following characteristics:

 

The relevance of the pictures to the topic.
The coherence of the pictures as a united whole.
The artistic and aesthetic quality of the photos.

The cost for every participant is 15 euros (to find out how you are going to pay, please follow this link: https://www.photobookstore.gr/index.php?route=product/product&path=60&product_id=59 ) Each photographer has to send his pictures at a digital form via WeTransfer at portfolio@photometria.gr. Also the email should include the following information:

 

Title of your work
Your name and surname
Your father’s name
Your address / place where you live
Your phone
Short cv/bio
Small description of the project

 

Your participation is going to be valid only if you have sent the portfolio and paid the cost of your participation.

In chase the photographs depict individuals without their knowledge or their approve, the responsibility lies exclusively on the photographer at whom the work belongs to and NOT on Photometria International Photography Festival.

The large side of the pictures sent must be 1500 pixels wide and 300 ppi in resolution.

Of those who will be excelled from the contest, it will be requested in time, to send their pictures at full resolution to be printed for the following exhibition.

The final day which pictures will be accepted is December 31 of 2018.

The results will be announced at the website of the festival ( www.photometria.gr), at social networks, whereas the winners will be informed also via email.

 

Jury team:

Panagiotis Papoutsis

Achilleas Tziakos

Panagiotis Pappas

 

The excelled portfolios will be the material of the exhibitions and screening entitled Parallel Voices, which will take place at places specified by the festival. Photometria International Photography Festival reserves the right to use the excelled pictures for the promotion of these exhibitions, as also at future promotional acts of the festival, with reference to the creator of the work. The printed portfolios will be reserved at the archive of the festival which holds the right to manage them and re-exhibit them.

The submission of your portfolio entails the acceptance of the above terms of the festival from each individual competitor.

 

We are waiting for your participation!!!

 

The selected photographers for Parallel Voices – Photometria Festival 2020 are: Ela Polkowska – Simone Jimena Rudolphi – Gian Marco Sanna – Svetlin Yosifov – Kostis Argyriadis – Pinelopi Thomaidi – Vasilis Nempegleriotis – Areta Peristeri – Nikos Priporas 

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FUTURE UNDER CONSTRUCTION

The world has changed and we want you to tell this story, which is also ours.

Share the reality of your closest environment, send us how you are living this situation in images, texts, videos, drawings or selfies. Express yourself freely. We will be the speaker to spread this collective story without filters.

I WANT TO PARTICIPATE

The history of global change narrated by the citizens.

How does it work?

You decide the message, we’ll be the messenger.

COLLECT MATERIAL

Tell us how you are living this situation in any format. It can be a song, a video, a fragment of your diary, a selfie, a poem, photographs you have taken or the audio you have sent to your friend.

SEND US YOUR STORY

Fill in the form with your details and attach all the material you consider necessary to accompany your story. You may choose to do so anonymously. We will treat your information with respect and confidentiality.

FOLLOW IT IN ITS EVOLUTION

The call has a start date but no closing date. It will be a living organism, in constant mutation and construction. You will be able to follow its growth through our communication channels and keep up to date with all the news.

DISSEMINATION OF RESULTS

The results will be exhibited in November 2020, at the Centre de Cultura Contemporania in October, as part of the PhotOn Festival 2020 programme, and in different formats at the Imaginaria conference, photography in the Spring of Castellon, and at festivals in Romania, Budapest and Greece.

Nikos Priporas is a photographer born in 1984 in Thessaloniki. He studied graphic design and visual communication, European Culture in H.O.U and photography in ESP Thessaloniki, as a scholar. He has attended theory and history seminars on photography with Paris Petridis at MOMus. His work has been featured in online and printed media as well as in group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, most recently at the Athens Photography Festival 2019 in the Greek Young Photographers section. He is a member of the Photography Centre of Thessaloniki.

Kostis Argyriadis is a photographer born in 1981 in Thessaloniki, Greece, where he lives and works. He attended ESP Photography in Thessaloniki with scholarship. He studied under Stratos Kalafatis, attending his seminars and at the photographic IEK ESP with scholarship.

His work was first published along with other photographers in 2012 in a project curated by Hercules Papaioannou and about the urban landscape of Thessaloniki.

In 2013 he published his first photographic project, by Agra publications, on the subject of the mediocrity of visual content in the city.

The album was followed by an solo exhibition at the National Bank of Greece’s Cultural Foundation (MIET) as well as at the Ianos art galleries in Athens and Thessaloniki.

He participated at the 2017 edition of Festival Circulations in Paris invited (Carte Blanche) by Hercules Papaioannou.

In 2018, he participated at the exhibition “Thessaloniki: Looking at time through moments: photographs 1900-2017″ at the Museum of European Culture in Berlin, curated by the director of Thessaloniki’s Museum of Photography.

He participated at the photographic album “a walk in the city, Bech Tsinar”, curated by the curator of Thessaloniki’s Museum of Photography, as well as at the photographic album “City of female gender”, where he attempts to explore multifaceted and luxuriant presence of women in Thessaloniki over six decades.

His work has to do with the insignificance of the visual content of cities and the wandering within them.

His works are exhibited at the Municipality of Thessaloniki’s Art Gallery, at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, as well as in private collectors .