Photography, visual storytelling, and anthropology workshop with Eleni Albarosa | in collaboration with Photometria – Ioannina
During Carnival in Ioannina and Epirus, this 6-day intensive workshop offers an immersion into documentary photography of local traditions, focusing on the Tzamalas and regional carnival rituals. Through a combination of field practice and theoretical reflection, we will explore the boundary between lived tradition and stereotyped folklore, learning to capture the festivities with a critical and respectful gaze, while developing your personal photographic voice and refining your visual language.
Each day includes photography and editing sessions, collective image review, discussions on narrative choices, and exploration of ethics, access to contexts, and relationships with subjects. The workshop concludes with the creation of a coherent and personal photographic narrative.
Open to photographers of all levels. The workshop is not strictly in Greek explanations and discussions can also be provided in English, Italian, or Spanish.
Requirements: digital camera, prime lens, and laptop
Workshop Goals
The workshop aims to:
– develop each participant’s visual language and artistic autonomy
-cultivate a personal and critical approach to documentary photography
-encourage reflection on issues of power, ethics, and representation in the photographic documentation of traditions
-accompany participants in the creation and development of a coherent photographic project
-Particular emphasis will be placed on the idea that every photograph is inseparably connected to the history, background, and lived experiences of its maker.
Photography thus becomes a space of relationship, listening, and responsibility.
Ethics and Fieldwork
A central axis of the workshop is the discussion around the photographer’s ethical position in the field, especially within ritualistic and communal environments.
Key questions will be addressed, such as:
-How do we approach individuals and communities during festivals and performative events?
-Images: why are they made, for whom, and for what purpose?
-How do we build a relationship of respect with the people we photograph?
-Photography and the exoticizing gaze
Ethics will not be approached as a set of abstract rules, but as an everyday practice that permeates access, presence, time, listening, and reciprocity.
Methodology
The workshop is structured as a collective class, grounded in sharing, dialogue, and continuous exchange.
-Daytime photography during events, rituals, and informal moments of Carnival
-Evening editing and critique sessions, which form the core of the workshop
-Daily work on image selection, sequencing, and the construction of meaning
-Collective discussions around process, intention, and visual choices
Editing is not treated as a final stage, but as a thinking tool: through the selection and discussion of images, participants’ approaches evolve day by day.
Photographers Bio
Born in Athens, Greece, and raised in Italy, Eleni Albarosa (b. 1996) began photographing at the age of fifteen, the same year she was first published by National Geographic Italy. Her work explores social realities marked by prejudice, misinformation, or harmful stereotypes, a focus shaped by both her long-standing photographic practice and her Bachelor’s studies in Anthropology, where she graduated with a 105/110 with a thesis on the internal economy of prisons.
Albarosa has over ten years of experience documenting traditional celebrations and rituals. Notably, she spent five years documenting traditional festivals in the Vesuvius area dedicated to seven Madonnas, focusing on participants from the third gender who carry out the rites.
Her projects have taken her to diverse communities, including nomadic circus performers, Romani communities in Italy and Greece, Irish Travellers in the UK, and a theater company of former inmates in Mexico City. She has also collaborated on international projects and been published in outlets such as Collater.al Magazine (2025), National Geographic USA (2024), Billboard (2024), Huck Magazine (2023), Overseas Magazine (2021), and National Geographic Italy (2012). Her commercial and collaborative work includes projects with the Antetokounbros Academy, Nike (2021), and Eleusis City of Culture 2023. In 2024, she launched La Ternura es Radical, a project documenting former prisoners working as actors in Mexico City, in collaboration with anthropologist Jorge Varela Perera.
This project earned her the Canon Student Development Program award at Perpignan 2024 and a selection for the Hamburg Portfolio Review. Albarosa has received numerous international recognitions, including awards from The Independent Photographer, Bruxelles Street Photo Festival, Women Street Photographers, Trieste Photo Awards, and Eyeshot Magazine. In 2025, she was named among ARTPIL’s 30 Under 30 Women Photographers and joined the jury of the SPLITFORMAT Photo Festival. In the same year, her work has been exhibited internationally in Belgium (Brussels), France (Arles), and Italy (Bologna, Treviso, Trieste, Torino).
She was also selected for the free masterclass with Magnum photographer Enri Canaj at Athens Photo World, taking place in early 2026.
Participation fee: €20 per submissionThe Youth Collective competition for 2025 has been successfully completed. The new format of the competition is now open to all young creators aged 18 to 25, regardless of their educational background. With this change, our goal is to provide space and opportunities to a broader range of emerging artists, encouraging contemporary photographic expression and experimentation.
The selected photographers are:
Euthymia Athanasiou [GR]
Gabriele Barbagallo [IT]
Lida Theodora Veniamin [GR]
Stella Giannioti [GR]
Kooshan Nasr [UK]
Vasilis Nастopoulos [GR]
Ilias Nikolarakis [GR]
Thomas Noonan [UK]
Alexia Pantelia [GR]
Vasilis Pastapas [GR]
Marios Portzoudis [GR]
Georgia Emmanouela Sinioraki [GR]
Elisavet Sykaminidou [GR]
Ariet Cela [GR]
David Figueiredo [PT]
Yoanna Walden [UK]
Jury committee:
Ioulia Ladogianni, visual artist and photography professor
Fotini Zaglara, conceptual self-portrait photographer
Alice Muratore, photographer and visual artist
Thank you to everyone who participated and shared their photographic ideas. The exhibition “Youth Collective” will be showcased as part of the 17th Photometria International Photography Festival, and the exhibition space will be announced soon.
In the context of Photometria Awards 2025, judged by Magnum photographer, Alec Soth, Photometria announced an open call for photographers from all over the world to submit their perspective on the impact of pop culture on contemporary society, under the theme “Non Stop Pop”. Twenty-five selected photographs will be presented in the namesake exhibition at the 17th Photometria International Photography Festival. Nikon – Damkalidis SA will award the first winner with a NIKON Z 30 camera and NIKKOR Z DX 12-28mm f/3.5-5.6 PZ VR lens. The announcement of the three winning photographs and the overall winner will follow shortly.
The 25 selected photographs are:
Alessandro Truffa [IT] – Bee training, attacking practices, from 432 Hz, 2023
Alex Bex [DE] – Memories of Dust
Anna Tut [RU] – Concierges
Bienyl Huelgas [PH] – Dance, Flash, Repeat
Bijoy Krishna Paul [BD] – Reels of a Forgotten Time
Gaby Langlois [PL] – Us at Home
Bruno Oliveira [LU] – Alycias Melancholic Melodies
Bruno Oliveira [LU] – Up Up and Away
Christos Sotiropoulos [GR] – Street of Celebrations
Daniel Kempf – Seifried [DE] – Pop my Hair
Denis Serrano [MX] – Invocations
Hiro Tanaka [JP] – Crowd
Jasmine De Silva [GB] – Crystal Queens, Miss Universe
Jesus Umbria Brito [ES] – Lola y Vera
Josh Bergeron [US] – Sailors and Hot Dog Stand
Josh Bergeron [US] – Astronaut with Hearses
Maria Voltsi [GR] – Meeting Chamii
Michelle LAU [HK] – Atem, Pop
Mirto Konstantinidou [GR] – Tomorrow I won’t buy anything
Nacho Varela [ES] – The lives of others
Nuno Serrao [PT] – Icebergs, my favorite kind of people
Pedro Dy-Liacco [PH] – Glamour & Grit: Echoes of the Disco Era
Vasileios Nempegleriotis [GR] – Perfect strangers
Verena Andrea Prenner [AT] – Camping
Yukai Chen [US] – The factory of Desire, Revisiting {The Living Room}
We are happy to announce the results of Photometria ΦΩΤΟBOOK 2025!
Congratulations to all participants!
The selected books will be presented at the Photometria Photography Center,
within the framework of the 17th edition of the Photometria International
Photography Festival from 28 September to 30 November 2025 and at ZOETROPE
Athens on a date to be announced. In the event that there is interest from
other regions of Greece for the presentation of this particular exhibition,
there will be further information.
We would like to thank our jury members:
– Achilleas Tziakos, Co-Founder of the Photometria International
Photography Festival
– Yorgos Yatromanolakis, Zoetrope Athens
– Franek Ammer, Curator of Fotofestiwal International Festival of
Photography in Lodz
– Louis Porter, Twenty Shelves, member of The Artists’ Books Cooperative.
The selected books are:
Adrienn Józan -Summer Cancelled
Aleksandros Zafeiridis- So Much Love
Alexandra Masmanidi – Amorus Glances
Bénédicte Blondeau – Ondes
Christos Dimitriou – Disthanees (Dead Twice)
Dimitris Mytas – Elephant
Emilia Martin – I Saw a Tree Bearing Stones
Eugenia Patsouri – Synapse
Giulio Favotto – Paternity Ratio
Hristina Tasheva – Far away from home:
Jana Palkina – Human Activity
Javier Talavera – Not all bald men with beards are Javier Talavera
Karol Jarek – Who loves it
Katrina Stamatopoulos – Domestic
Konstantina Tsirogianni – Unveiling Between
Lavinia Perlamenti & Manfredi Pantanella – The Lines We Draw
Maria Denise Dessimoz – The Inevitable Anguish of Desire
Odysseas Tsompanoglou – Non Cycladia
Regina Maria Anzenberger – Roots & Waltz
Regina Maria Anzenberger – Imperfections
Spiros Zervoudakis – Terra incognita
Two Spiky Gorillaz – Nowhere Tree
Yizhen Zhang – Win or Lose
The selection of Short Films, Documentaries, Animation and Video Art that participated in the established Photometria in Motion open call has been completed for the 8th consecutive year! 43 selected works, from 22 countries, will be part of the screening program of the 17th edition of the Photometria International Photography Festival, which will take place in Ioannina, in the fall of 2025.
The selected Video Art:
ARENA, Khalil Charif [Brazil]
Alternative Planet, Emilie Crewe [Iceland]
Show your wound, Matthias Daenschel [Germany]
The Fish Dies By Its Mouth, Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo [Colombia]
Organesson, Andrew Frangella [Un. St. of America]
My November Guest, Georgie Gentile [Un. St. of America]
Old House, Huang Weipeng Huang [China]
A Different Goal, Marco Joubert [Canada]
Whispers, Yu Yan [Un. St. of America]
Sofá TV (PopArt3), Luis Carlos Rodríguez [Spain]
Breath, Vivian Papageorgiou [Greece]
Rain, Vasilios Papaioannu [Greece, Italy, Un. St. of America]
The selected Animation:
Ghariba & Ajeeb, Boubaker Boukhari [Algeria, Tunisia, Un. Ar. Emirates]
Novavita, Francesco Bruno Sorrentino, Antonio Genovese [Italy]
Né una né due, Lucia Catalini [Italy]
A pleasure, Sonia Estevez [Spain]
Claw Machine, Georges Salameh [Greece]
Undertow, Justin Taylor [Un. St. of America]
The selected Short Films:
Laundromat 24/7, Skaistė Bartkutė [Lithuania]
And the sea is ashen, Sébastien Berlendis [France, Italy]
Varanus, Kiarash Bokaeyan [Iran]
Chicken Broth Soup, Deniz Büyükkırlı [Turkey]
Trinidad, Jos Azuela, Jose Manuel Azuela Espinosa [Mexico]
Dear Kevin, Kate Ferguson [Un. St. of America]
Rainy Night, Wenting Gao [Un. St. of America]
Nabi, Hamed Golshahi [Iran]
Bottles, Yassine El Idrissi [Italy, Morocco]
Spider Zan, Maryam Khodabakhsh [Iran]
Shan Shan, Yushan Lin [China]
A cat can look at a king, Deris Muhamad [Indonesia]
Nowhere, Erfan Parsapour [Iran]
Krater, Céline Ribard [Iceland, Malta, Thailand]
Réveillon, Alexandros Vozinidis [Greece]
Morphes, Konstantinos Doxiadis [Greece]
The heart of things: Not a movie, Polydoros Kalaitzis [Greece]
The Wooden Dear, Anastasis Panagis Meletis [Greece]
Clementine, George Stagakis [Greece]
The selected Documentaries:
Palmento, Christopher L. Barnes [Italy]
The Airplane Home, Nick Chung [Un. St. of America]
Woman to woman, Julien Faure [France]
Kesi, Zhenghao Lu [China]
Black rain in my eyes, Amir Masoud Soheili [Iran]
The Keeper, Johanna Tesfaye [Un. St. of America]
Thank you to everyone who participated and especially to those whose films stood out! Also, warm thanks to the people who made up the competition jury: Vasilis Douvlis, Maria Anestopoulou, Panagiotis Papoutsis and Danai Agnanti.
The results of the photographic portfolio contest Parallel Voices 2025 Results are here!
Congratulations to all participants! We really can’t wait to see your projects again next year!
Special thanks to all the photographers who participated this year.
The 9 selected photographers are:
Antigone Kourakou, Vasilis Papageorgiou, Tanya Sharapova, Alain Schroeder, Jan Kraus, Jung Ui Lee, Manuela Federl, Valentin Valette, Oleksandr Rupeta.
Group exhibition of the 25 selected photographs from the competition Photometria Awards 2024, Constructed Realities with critic Martin Parr. The exhibition entitled “Constructed Realities” endeavors to present a comprehensive examination of the intricate interplay between perception and reality as depicted through the medium of photography. In an era characterized by an increasing mediation of perceptions and a blurring of the boundaries delineating reality, this exhibition seeks to provide a nuanced elucidation of the multifaceted nature of human understanding. Through a curated selection of photographic works, viewers are invited to delve into the complexities inherent in the construction and interpretation of reality. Photography, with its inherent capacity to capture and manipulate narratives, serves as a potent vehicle for the exploration of these themes. In the contemporary digital landscape, where the proliferation of social media and advancements in artificial intelligence challenge traditional notions of truth, the medium assumes an even greater significance. The exhibited works interrogate the phenomenon of directed photography, wherein perceptions are consciously shaped and realities carefully constructed. Additionally, viewers are transported into surreal dreamworlds, where the boundaries of reality are blurred, offering tantalizing glimpses into alternate dimensions of existence. Furthermore, the exhibition critically examines the role of media propaganda in shaping public perceptions, highlighting the pervasive influence of images as tools for the dissemination of ideologies and the manipulation of truths. “Constructed Realities” serves as a testament to the enduring power of photography as a means of inquiry and expression, inviting viewers to engage in a contemplative dialogue on the nature of reality and the intricacies of human perception. Through an exploration of these constructed realities, viewers are encouraged to interrogate their own understanding of truth and illusion, thus fostering a deeper appreciation for the complexities inherent in the human experience.
Opening: Friday, 29 November 2024 @ 19:00
Duration: 29/11/2024 – 7/12/2024
Work Hours: Tue – Fri 17:30 – 21:00 | Sat 11:00 – 14:30
Melanithros | Art Space
Zappa 4, 11635 Kallimarmaro, Athens, Greece | QR
Τ +30 2103636904
The exhibition of the best 25 photos on “Looking for the Light” that were selected by the great Magnum’s photographer, Martin Parr of Photometria Festival 2022, travels to Athens in Melanithros gallery.
Organized by: Photometria – International Photography Festival
Jury: Martin Parr
Opening: Teusday, November 15, 2022 @ 20:00
Duration: 15/11/2022 – 3/12/2022
Work hours: Tue – Fri 17:30 – 21:00 | Saturday 11:00 – 14:30
Zappa 4, 11635 Kallimarmaro, Athens
T +30 2103636904 | F +30 2106236976
www.melanithros.gr
I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.
Trent Parke
Light, the cornerstone of photography. It is the animator, the one which reveals the world around us, which illuminates the unknown, and reveals virtues, hope, truth and happiness. It was used as a symbol of “good” religiously and socio-politically, which is in a perpetual battle against evil, darkness and shadows. It is identified with the divine, but also with knowledge. Already last year’s theme (Un)lucky (R)evolution, raised the question of where we stand as humanity now. This year we look forward. We look to the future optimistically, seeking light in every aspect of our lives. We are looking for all that is worth fighting for, but also all the darkness that is waiting to be illuminated. We are looking for the light that will give us new knowledge but also the optimism we need in a world that continues to plunge into darkness. As Magnum’s Australian photographer Trent Parke puts it: “Light turns the ordinary into the magical.” So this year, let’s try to spread the magic!
Photographers:
Tsygankova Daria Vasilevna, ”The dark knight”
Akis Pasalidis, ”Untitled”
Noemi Comi, ”Deathfest”
Vasilis Gonis, ”Don’t look at the sun”
Vladimiros Tachmatzidis, “Trip to knowhere”
Aggelos Barai, ”Untitled”
Mohammad Reza Masoumi, ”Ahoora”
Andi Abdul Halil, ”The Best Friend”
Nikos Konidaris, ”Angeliki”
Arezoo Babagoli, ”In the heart of the earth”
Tatiana Mishchenko ”Ephemeral Motels”
Sofia Tolika, “The escape of Philoctetes”
Olga Tkachenko , ”Spring morning”
Gali Tibbon, ”Cross of Light”
Elina Kichheva, ”Shaman”
Elena Kozlova, ”Natalie”
Antonis Papakonstantinou, ”Light composition”
Natalia Gorshkova, ”Jugglers”
Maria Karofyllidou, ”On the beach”
Matteo Capone, ”Solo”
Azamat Matkarimov, ”Mysterious shepherd”
Ali Moarref, ”Pray for forgiveness”
Sasan Moayyedi, “Love Story”
Sibusiso Bheka, ”Iparty”
Isidoros Mplougaris, ”Breathe”
