Instructions

 The submission of the projects will last from 01/08/2021 till 30/09/2021. The timeline schedule of application is:  

                      ♦ 01/08 – 20/8: free entrance

                      ♦ 21/08 – 10/9: 10 €

                      ♦ 11/09 – 30/09: 25 €

Participants are asked to make an online submission of their project/s, which will be able to be downloaded, with the maximum duration of 20 minutes (20′) and no restrictions in subject, as well as a brief descriptive text of the work. If the original language of the film is not greek, then should also be submitted the necessary material, of greek or english dialogues.

Follow the link below to complete the registration form:

                                 photobookstore

or sign in and submit your work through FilmFreeway: 

The choice will be made by Danai and Dimitris Agnantis, based on the relevance of the description of the idea to its execution. The selected works will be part of the material of this year’s festival screenings in venues and dates to be announced.

The results will be announced on the website (www.photometria.gr) and on the social media of the festival. The winners will also be notified by personal email.

Rules & Terms

1. The projects must be product of the participant.

2. Each participant can declare as many works as they want but only one can be selected (in case of selection).

3. In case that the works depict persons unknowingly or without their approval, responsibility lies     solely with the creator to whom the work belongs and not the Photometria International   Photography Festival.

4. Photometria International Photography Festival has the right to use the selected works in future   promotions of the festival.

5. The selected works will be kept in the archive of the festival, which retains the right to re-   exhibiting them, always referring to the creator of each project and not for commercial purposes.

6. The copyrights of each work belong to their creators.

The submission of the registration form at the Open Call of Photometria in Motion, which is part of the 14th Photometria International Photography Festival, automatically means acceptance of the terms and conditions that have been set forth above.

Olga Stefatou is a visual artist and photography consultant.

She recently moved back to
 her native country Greece after working with Qatar Museums as Senior photography specialist for two years. In her practice, Stefatou works with mixed media and mainly with photography.
She investigates the idea of freedom and its connection 
to geopolitics, heritage and social structures, with a special interest in gender issues. Believing that image-making should engage the personal and collective consciousness, her work entangles documentary practices with performance elements as tools to reflect alternative realities. Stefatou has exhibited her work at Aga Khan Museum (CA), Doha Fire Station art space (QA), Los Angeles Month of Photography, Head On (AU), Les Boutographies (FR) and Gallery Negpos (FR) among others.

Some of her major projects include the long-term series Red Ruby in Myanmar, while
in 2015 she participated in
 the pioneering Solar Impulse mission – the round of the world with a solar powered aircraft. Stefatou has travelled worldwide and extensively in Asia, producing photography and video on social and humanitarian issues. She has an extensive experience in photojournalism, collaborating with international media such as Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, The Economist, NBC News and Vanity Fair among others.

Stefatou is the creative director of the arts program at Saristra Festival Arts, a festival celebrating music and arts on Cephalonia Island, Greece.

She studied photography at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens and in 2012 she earned her Master’s degree in Multimedia Journalism from the University of Bolton, UK, while being based in Beijing, China.

Website: olgastefatou.com

Instagram: olga_stefatou

Polydefkis Asonitis was born in 1956 in Ioannina. He studied Economics, Pedagogy and Photography. He holds a PhD in Semiology of Art and a postgraduate degree from the Department of Art Sciences of the School of Fine Arts of Ioannina.

He taught photography at the «Higher Technological Educational Institution of Athens» and at the «Public Vocational Training Institution of Epirus».

He held many photo exhibitions in Greece and abroad.

He is a permanent contributor in the in the Greek photographic magazine: “PHOTOGRAPHER”.

He has published three photo albums entitled: “Childhood Landscapes”, “Kalliepeia” and “The charcoal burners of Pindos”.

He is a founding member of the photography groups: “Fotorasi” and “Photographers”.

The main photograph projects are: “The charcoal burners of Pindos”, “Pomakochoria of Xanthi”, “Mud baths of Krinidon”, “The festivals in Epirus”, “Amvrakikos”, “Ρesurrected of Serres”, “The Negros of Drama” and “Genes of Drama”, “Saint Simeon – Mesolongi”, “The bell ringers of Sohos”, “Myrrh – bearing women in Corfu”, “Easter in Corfu”.

Website: asonitisp.com

Instagram: polydefkis_asonitis

Ioannis Asmis was born in 1985, in Velvento, Kozani. Graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from University of Western Macedonia, followed by 2 Master of Science degrees. Photography was always his greatest passion.

Since 2017, he has joined and graduated Stereosis Photography School and has participated in three annual school exhibitions. From September until November 2020, his project “Reprocess” was part of the Young Photographers exhibition, hosted by Athens Photo Festival 2020 in Benaki Museum, 138 Pireos str., Athens.

Instagram: ioannis.asmis

Noemi Comi (1996) is an artist of conceptual and documentary photography born in Catanzaro, Italy. She has devoted herself to photography since childhood, but the meeting with the photographer Ferdinando Scianna was revealing.

Noemi studied photography at Laba Libera Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, where she graduated with Mention of Honour. At the same time she followed a mentorship course with Steve Bisson by Urbanautica Institute. In 2019 she received a Special Mention at Premio Pesaresi.

Her photography is constantly evolving and follows a multidisciplinary path. She wants to combine art and science trying to break down any taboo. Her works conform to a well-defined aesthetic, dominated by strong colors and surreal atmospheres.

Website: noemicomi.com

Instagram: noemicomi

Emilia Haar was born 1996 in Bremen, Germany. After finishing her studies in Human Geography, she continued to fathom the network of cultural thinking patterns and expressions within the master program Media Studies at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Focusing on visual codes as cultural symptoms, she uses photography as a tool to capture differences and possibilities within rural and urban landscapes.

Education & Jobs

2014 – 2018
Human Geography – Bachelor of Science
Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

2018
Internship – German National Tourist Board
Regional Management Office in Tokyo, Japan
Funded by the DAAD scholarship

Since 2019
Media Studies – Master of Arts
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany

Since 2019
Working Student – Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk MDR Erfurt, Germany
Corporate Communications and Press Department

Since 2019
Freelance Editor and Media Designer for Digital and Print Media

2020 -2021
Internship at Maximus Film Leipzig, Germany
Television Editorial Department

Exhibitions & Publications

2020
Summaery 2020 – The struggle is part of the story
Faculty Art & Design – Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
Online-exhibition: struggle.gallery

2020
Editor for PORT-Magazine
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany

Website: emiliahaar.com

Instagram: emiliahaar

Makis Makris was born and has been residing in Kavala, Greece. He studied “Greek Civilization and Culture” alongside Graphic Arts on “Interior Decoration”.

He has been a member of Photoclub of Kavala since 2009 and in 2017 he joined the photo collective B.U.L.B. based in Bucharest. 

He has taken part in various group exhibitions as often in Greece as abroad and his photographic works have been displayed in both international and Greek online platforms and magazines.

In 2019 his first individual exhibition was materialized at Space Place Gallery in Nizhny Tagil, Russia.

Website: makismakris.com

Instagram: makismakris8338

Karoline Schneider is an artist and photographer living in the heart of Berlin. She currently teaches at Film University Babelsberg.

After graduating from the University of Arts, Berlin and Film University, Potsdam/ Babelsberg, Karoline began her working life as a graphic artist and animation filmmaker with love of photography. In 2008 she began working intensively with photographic processes. Her most recent works combine images with text and installation to create pieces of complex narrative.

Website: karolineschneider.de

Instagram: karoline.schneider.berlin

Alexandre Silberman (1983) is a director and photographer based in Paris (France). Graduated in Philosophy and in Communication from LYON III University, he mainly works on documentary projects touching on the cultural and the societal, in relation to the research he conducted during his studies.

His photographic approach, along with his cinematic work, has developed around the analysis of the relationships between a place and those who cross it.

Hence was created the NEW CITY/NEW GOD series, which was centered around the place of religion in Brasilia and which was presented at the Red Bull Station in Sao Paulo (Brazil) in 2016.

In 2018, his series on scenography of Beauty in Ile-de-France museums, THE GREAT BEAUTY, was the subject of a monographic exhibition at the Moritzhof Gallery in Magdeburg (Germany).

This series was selected in 2019 to participate in the International Photography Festival of Lenzburg (Switzerland).

In 2020, Alexandre Silberman was shortlisted for the Bar Tur Photo Awards, the Palm* Photo Prize, and is one of the ten finalists exhibited in New York for the Feature Shoot Street Photography Awards. The same year, he was also exhibited at PHOTOIS:RAËL and during the 15th International Biennial of Photography NICÉPHORE +.

His work has been published in Urban China Magazine, Journal Of Grievances, C41 Magazine and Aint-Bad among others.

Website: alexandresilberman.com

Instagram: alexandresilberman

Vasiliki Stamou was born in 1976 in Thessaloniki where she still lives and works. She studied Law at Democritus University of Thrace Law School. She attend seminars at the STEREOSIS Photography School in Thessaloniki since 2017 until now. She participated in four group photo exhibitions.

Instagram: vasilikistamou