We are delighted to announce the Parallel Voices 2026 results!

Alex Bex (FR/USA) | Giuseppe Cardoni (IT) | Vladimir Karamazov (BG) | Sveta Kaverina (RU) | Sarah Malakoff (USA) | Kirill Muniabin (RU) | Stefanos Paikos (GR) Danae Panagiotidi (GR) | George Stergiopoulos (GR)

The Parallel Voices portfolio competition accepts submissions on an annual basis as part of promoting contemporary photographic creation. The nine selected portfolios will be presented at the Photometria International Photography Festival 2026 at a venue to be announced shortly.

Warm congratulations to all participants for the exceptional quality of their work and for the large international participation from every corner of the world. We look forward to welcoming their submissions again in the next competition.

Poster image by:
Lavinia Parlamenti and Manfredi Pantanella

Photometria International Photography Festival, in collaboration with Zoetrope Athens, presents to the Athenian public two international photobook exhibitions focusing on contemporary publishing practices and highlighting the photobook as an independent artistic medium. The exhibitions were presented as part of the 17th Photometria International Photography Festival 2025.

The Photometria Photobooks Exhibition brings together a selection of recent publications by Greek and international creators. The works move between photography, storytelling, and experimental design, exploring the book form as a space for composition, rhythm, and materiality.

The exhibition includes the following publications: Amorous Glances by Alexandra Masmanidi, Disthanees (Dead Twice) by Christos Dimitriou, Domestic by Katrina Stamatopoulos, Elephant by Dimitris Mytas, Far Away from Home by Hristina Tasheva, Human Activity by Jana Gertz, I Saw a Tree Bearing Stones by Emilia Martin, Imperfections and Roots & Waltz by Regina Maria Anzenberger, Non Cycladia by Odysseas Tsompanoglou, Not All Bald Men with Beards Are Javier Talavera by Javier Talavera, Nowhere Tree by Two Spiky Gorillaz, Ondes by Bénédicte Blondeau, Paternity Ratio by Giulio Favotto, So Much Love by Alexandros Zafeiridis, Summer Cancelled by Adrienn Józan, Synapse by Evgenia Patsouri, Terra Incognita by Spyros Zervoudakis, The Inevitable Anguish of Desire by Maria Denise Dessimoz, The Lines We Draw by Lavinia Parlamenti & Manfredi Pantanella, Unveiling Between by Konstantina Tsirogianni, Who Loves It by Karol Jarek, and Win or Lose by Yizhen Zhang.

At the same time, the exhibition of the Polish Photographic Publication of the Year 2025 award is presented, organized by Fotofestiwal Łódź in collaboration with Bookoff Art Bookstore and Służewski Dom Kultury. The exhibition showcases the year’s most dynamic Polish publications, highlighting the creative relationship between photography and graphic design and proposing new forms of visual storytelling.

Together, the two exhibitions create a shared space for exchange around independent photographic publishing, connecting local and international practices and approaching the book as a medium of artistic research.

Opening: Saturday, 14 February 2026, 18:00
Dates: 14–22 February 2026
Opening hours: Saturday & Sunday, 18:00–21:00, and by appointment
Venue: Zoetrope, Kimolou 17, Kypseli, Athens

Τhe open call for entries is addressed to artists and self-publishers from around the world, focusing on artist books, self-published photobooks, limited edition books, zines and DIY publications related to photography.

The selected books will be presented at the Photometria Photography Center, at the 18th edition of the Photometria International Photography Festival from 26 September to 29 November 2026 and later at ZOETROPE Athens on a date to be announced. Should there be interest from other regions in hosting this exhibition, further information will be provided. The set of books that will be selected, upon completion of the exhibitions, will be listed and added to the Photometria Photography Center’s public photographic library. The festival aims to disseminate the selected publications as broadly as possible before they are catalogued and placed in the P.P.C. library.

Submission fee: 20 €

Entry Fee: Here

Jury panel:

– Achilleas Tziakos, Co-Founder of the Photometria International Photography Festival

– Yorgos Yatromanolakis, Zoetrope Athens

– Tiago Casanova, XYZ Books

– Francesca Todde, Depart Pour L’ Image

Submission Methods & Requirements

Those interested are invited to submit, between January 15 and February 20, 2026, a folder containing the following material via WeTransfer to photometriafestival@gmail.com. For Greek submissions, all information—and any required text—must be provided in both Greek and English):

– PDF with Technical specifications (Insert a dash in any field that does not apply)

1. Title
2. Writer/Artist
3. Editor
4. Designer
5. Publisher
6. Year of publication
7. Project summary
8. Book dimensions & number of pages
9. Printing method
10. Bookbinding method

– PDF of the book

– An image of the book cover (JPG file)

– Photobook presentation video (less than 3 min.) (mp4)

– Payment receipt

Applicants may submit more than one title, provided that each proposal is accompanied by a separate participation file.

The results will be announced on the festival’s social media channels within two months after the competition concludes, and the winners will be notified individually via email. Selected artists will be asked to send their books, at their own expense, by the end of May 2026 to:

 

184, 21st Fevrouariou str., 45221, Ioannina, Greece, for Mr. Achilleas Tziakos

 

Participation in the competition means the acceptance of the above conditions of the festival by each participant as well as informing him about the future actions of the festival.

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.

Entry Fee: Here

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.

 

The 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.

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