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

 

Photometria International Photography Festival wishing to continue the promotion of modern photographic creation, announces a portfolio contest from November 1st to December 31st 2023.

Participants are asked for one (1) portfolio of fifteen (15) photographs, of which eight (8) will be selected. Through them, the photographer will deal with a topic of his preference, an idea or even the narration of a story. 

The best nine (9) portfolios that will be selected will be the material of the exhibition entitled “Parallel Voices”, for 2024.

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

 

A. The relevance of the pictures to the topic.

B. The coherence of the pictures as a united whole.

C. The artistic and aesthetic quality of the photos.

 

Jury team

 

Panagiotis Papoutsis, Founder – Photometria Festival

Achilleas Tziakos , Founder – Photometria Festival

Panagiotis Pappas, Artistic Director – Photometria Festival

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Instructions

 

The cost for every participant is 15 euros (15 €). To find out how you are going to pay, please press: SUBMISSION

 

Each photographer has to send his pictures at a digital form via WeTransfer at portfolio@photometria.gr. Also, in the same WeTransfer the following data should be sent in PDF:

 

• Self portrait of the photographer
• Project title
• Full name (name and surname)
• Nationality
• Address, City
• E-mail
• Phone number
• A short CV (up to 150 words)
• Short description of the project (up to 150 words)
• Detailed project description (up to 300 words) (if exists)

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Results

 

The results will be announced on February 1, 2024, at the website of the festival (www.photometria.gr), at social networks, whereas the winners will be informed also via email.

The best nine (9) portfolios that will be selected will be the material of the exhibition entitled “Parallel Voices”, for 2024.

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Terms of Participation

 

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

2. In case 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.

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

4. 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.

5. The final day which pictures will be accepted is December 31 of 2023.

6. 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.

7. The excelled portfolios will be the material of the exhibition entitled ‘’Parallel Voices”, which will take place at place 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.

8. By participating in the competition, you accept being informed via e-mail about the actions of the Photometria Festival.

 

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!

Here are the results of Photometria Awards 2023 “Emerging Roots” competition, judged by Martin Parr:

 

Catwithacamera, “Resilience”

Niloofar Balami [IR], “Sitting alone”

Alena Grom [UA], “Herbarium”

Artem Humilevskyi [UA], “Marriage ceremony”

Filip Machač [CZ], “Untitled”

Martina Martorelli [IT], “Sixty days”

Sergey Poteryaev [RU], “Staraya Utka”

Antonio Aragon Renuncio [ES], “Emerging Roots”

Stefano Scagliarini [IT], “Dancing with my roots”

Evgeniya Strygina, “Stay afloat”

Nella Stücker [CH], “I went missing”

Martina Alice Tolotti [IT], “Unglory”

Evgeniya Tsoy [RU], “The grandmother’s cup”

Dimitris Asproloupos [GR], “Her voguing moment”

Polidefkis Asonitis [GR], “Karagiozis”

Sakis Dazanis [GR], “Sunday stroll”

Konstantinos Zilos [GR], “Untitled”

Mikael Kouragios [GR], “The roots of tradition”

Markos Kyprianos [GR], “Untitled”

Isidoros Blougkaris [GR], “The reflection of a memory”

Miranda Papadopoulou [GR], “Constructed dream”

Dimitra Stathopoulou [GR], “The Shepherd”

Panayiotis Tendes, “Bathers VII”

Sotiris Tsiros, “Untitled”

Yiannis Hadjiosif, “Fumiko at Exohi”

 

Those photos will be exhibited at the Photometria Awards exhibition this September, at Ioannina!