Theme: “Stalk me” 
1.4 – 17.5.2020

People that never sleep. Open screens and we spectators and spectacles at the same time. People staring up at us, a curiosity about the lives of others. We, first of all, photographing the unexpected and the random, before it gets lost in endless time. Because it’s our insatiable curiosity that pushed us there. A photo shoot on the street, a persistent look at the hidden or at something that we hadn’t even noticed until now, an obsessive glance. From Sophie Calle’s camera at the “Suite Venitienne” to the modern London’s street surveillance cameras. We live in a time where technology enables a continuous and two-way Panopticon. An endless surveillance of which we do not always know on which side we are. An instinctive need to see and be seen. Stalk us!

Awards :

1st Jury Award

E-PL8 1442IIR Kit blk/blk (E-PL8 black + EZ-M1442IIR black – incl. Charger & Battery)

2nd Jury Award:

CULLMANN NEOMAX 260  travel tripod

3rd Jury Award:

CULLMANN SYDNEY pro Maxima 425+  black, camera bag

In addition, one of the three winners has the opportunity to participate in the next year’s festival with a solo exhibition.

Sponsors: 

Jury:

Spyros Staveris, Panayiotis Papadimitropoulos, Vanja Bucan, Dimitris Mitas, Mariya Kozhanova

Penelope Thomaidi is a documentary photographer from Greece, based in Athens. Member of Hans Lucas agency since 2018.
Interested in the relation between people and their territory, in her personal practice she pursues long-term projects exploring social and environmental issues. Her work often focuses on subjects with a special relation to memory, self-determination and resistance.
Her work A Zone To Defend has been shown in Helsinki Photo Festival 2019 (winner of the Open Call #Anarchy), as well as at the Young Greek Photographers exhibition in the context of the Athens Photo Festival 2019 and was also screened at the VOIES OFF in Arles in 2018. With the same project she won the 1st prize of Spéos Awards 2018 #Reportage and was a finalist of La Bourse du Talent 2018 #Landscape.
She is a graduate of “Creative Documentary and Photojournalism” one-year masterclass programme coordinated by Magnum Photos and Spéos International School of Photography in Paris (2018) with a background in Fine Arts, holding a Masters Degree in Artistic Production and Research from the University of Barcelona and a BA in Plastic Arts and Art Sciences from the University of Ioannina, Greece. Before fully committing to photography, she gained professional experience in graphic design and communication. Co-founder of WHAT IF Design Studio in Athens since 2013.
Her photography has been published in print and online media in Greece, France and Ireland. While her artistic work has been shown in exhibitions in Greece, Spain and Brazil.

Vasilis Nempegleriotis was born in Larissa, in central Greece in 1987. He has been an amateur photographer since 2015. He participated in a photography seminar of the photography crew named “Orama Photos” for 8 months during 2018. He has joined the photography crew Fplus since 2018 . His photographs were presented in exhibitions including photographs of the Fplus crew. In 2019 her created his first own photography exhibition in Larissa.

I was born in 1994 and for the past years I have been living and working in Thessaloniki.
I started learning about photography in Stereosis Photography School, from which graduated in June 2019.
My work mainly involves selfportraits, using both digital and analogue media. I have participated is several group expositions, such as Logline vol.1 (2/2020, Stereosis) and Young Greek Photographers (6/2019, Athens Photo Festival).
Professionally, I am a fashion and portrait photographer.

Panayotis Papadimitropoulos was born in Thessaloniki where he obtained his first degree as a civil engineer in 1982. Then he moved to Paris where he lived until 2006. He studied fine arts and photography at the École d’arts décoratifs and at the Université Paris 8, where he obtained his doctoral thesis.  He worked as a freelance photographer for advertising and communication agencies as well as for the Wostok photojournalism agency. He was a correspondent photographer in France for the magazines Ena, Flash and collaborated with magazines Ιδέες και Λύσεις (Home, Ideas and Solutions) and Deco Figaro.

Since 2006 he works as a Photography Lecturer and Associate Professor in the Department of Fine Arts and Art Sciences, University of Ioannina, Greece. In 2010 his book Le sujet photographique was published in France by L’Harmattan, in 2013 Journal Parisien by Thermaikos (Greece), in 2014 Le sujet photographique et sa remise en question (Alfred Stieglitz, Robert Frank, William Klein, Raymond Depardon) by Presses Académiques Francophones (France), in 2016 Metaphotographs by University Studio Press (Greece), and in 2020 Raymond Depardon et la philosophie, by L’Harmattan (France).