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In the context of Photometria Awards 2024, judged by Martin Parr, we are delighted to announce the 25 selected photographers that will showcase their perspectives on the theme “Constructed Realities”.

Damkalidis SA will award the overall winner with a Nikon Z30 camera and Nikkor Z DX 12-28mm f/3.5-5.6 PZ VR. Announcements for the winner will follow shortly.

Ebrahim Alipoor [IR] – They returned // Hadi Dehghanpour [IR] – Corona Bride // Amirmohammad Enayati [IR] – Cold house // Glish Group (Anastasia Shubina and Timofey Glinin) [US] – Nomadic future // Lifu Hu [CN] – First Love // Md Saiful Islam [BD] – Recycling // Mehri Jamshidi [IR] – Apart // Ioannis Kais [GR] – Disintegration // Amirhossein Yousefi Keysari [IR] – Asbad // Brandon (Byeongbeom) Kim [AU] – Hand Car Wash // Henri Kisielewski [FR/GB] // Anton Konovalenko [UA] – Phantom Teneta // Mikael Kouragios [GR] – Dive into the void // Alba Ruiz Lafuente [ES] – For the leisure of working insects (Amusement Park) // Mohammad Ataei Mohammadi [IR] – Tree // Juan Rodríguez Morales [ES] – Untitled // Myronov Mykola [UA] – Untitled #2 // Amirhossein Nami [IR] – Wanderer // Andrew Rovenko [AU] – The Friendship // Elizabeth Rovit [GR] – Multiverse // Shamal (Fayegh) Shakibayi [IR] – Environment lover // Olga Steinepreis [DE] – A stranger in the mirror // Aleksandra Szajnecka [PL] – I want to return to the burdock leaf where my mom found me // Pantazis Toufidis [GR] – Hug // Alena Zhandarova [RU] – Dream

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 7th consecutive year! The selected works will be part of the screening program of the 16th edition of the Photometria International Photography Festival, which will take place in Ioannina, in the fall of 2024.

 

Thank you to everyone who participated and especially to those whose films stood out!

 

The selected Video Art:

 

Urban Cut – Agonia Stratos, Lea Alquiroz [United Kingdom]

Hungry Ghost, Guido Devadder, Kaitlin McSweeney [Belgium]

Motus, Nelson Fernandes [Portugal]

Periodic Table, Jason Franzen [United States]

AbstrArt 27, Luis Carlos Rodríguez García [Spain]

Flights, Anne Gart [United Kingdom]

Night Ride from LA, Martin Gerigk [Germany]

Acrobat, Shin Jungkyun [Korea]

Simulakrum, Vera Sebert [Austria]

The Empathy Machine, Grant Sissons [South Africa]

KYKLOP, Telemach Wiesinger [Germany]

the manifest of it, Κostis Αrgyriadis [Greece]

The Life We Live Is Not Life Itself, Ian Gibbins [Greece]

 

The selected Animation:

 

PINA, Jeremy Depuydt, Giuseppe Accardo [Belgium]

Txotxongiloa, Sonia Estévez [Spain]

Golden Shot, Gokalp Gonen [Turkey]

Don’t forget to take medicines on time, Xiaoxuan Han [China]

Swwart Wovlve Wolve, William Harper [United States]

Anemometer, Wang-Chen Lee [Germany]

Winking out, Juliette Mauduit [Belgium]

Monk SEISHIN, Ryotaro Miyajima [Japan]

Shakespeare for all Ages, Hannes Rall [Germany]

NUMBERS, Deniz Türker [Turkey]

STARRY WILL, Jiajing Yin [China]

Pink Mountain, Thomas Kunstler [Greece]

 

The selected Short Films:

 

Hunting, Maïa Aboualiten [France]

Entropy, Bamdad Aghajani, Arian Navabi [Iran]

WE ARE ALL DOGS, Aminreza Alimohammadi [Iran]

THE SINGLE HORN, Mohamad Kamal Alavi [Iran]

Being one, Juan Pablo Aróstegui [Mexico]

Najan, M.Mahdi Bagheri [Iran]

We Are Happy, Mohamad Boorboor [Iran]

Good to talk, Stephen Broekhuizen [Ireland]

si mai no ens haguéssim separate, Marc Esquirol Cano [Spain]

Fortissimo, Victor Cesca [France]

Double bed, Ali Khameparast Fard [Iran]

Tornado, Meisam Gheisizadeh [Iran]

Nonsense!, Strahinja Mlađenović [Serbia]

Homo, Yaroslav Vyacheslavovich Naumenko [Ukraine]

Boycott, Amin Rafie [Iran]

From the Dark, Erika Sanz [United States]

The Land, Masoud Shahri [Iran]

School benches, Behrouz Shamshiri [Iran]

From The Painter’s View, Goli Zarei [Iran]

Predators, Kiriakos Anastasiou [Greece]

The Best, Ilias Doulis [Greece]

I WONDER,YES I CONFESS, I WONDER, Antonia Economou, Christos Adrianopoulos [Greece]

Father, Steven Gekas [Greece]

góos, Flora Ilia [Greece]

Axinos, Anna Maria Kakona, Calliopi Villy Kotoula  Greece]

Xénia, Alexander Kakouris [Greece]

Another Day, Alloprosallos Nous [Greece]

Voulolimna, Nefeli Papaioannou [Greece]

Chlorine, Thanos Psichogios [Greece]

Toy, Natasha Smyrnaiou [Greece]

The Boar, Konstantinos Tsiodoulos [Greece]

Hantush – a fairytale, Alexia Tsouni [Greece]

 

The selected Documentaries:

 

Transient Ties, Michaela Nagyidaiová [Slovakia]

Courage, Star Bazancir, Jasmina Pusök [Sweden]

The Life Beyond, Stylianos Papardelas [Greece]

We are happy to announce the results of Photometria ΦΩΤΟBOOK 2024!
Congratulations to all participants!
Special thanks to all the creators who achieved to be part of our photobook exhibition this year!
Finally we would like to thank our jury members, Calin Kruse, Yorgo Yatromanolaki, Μyrto Steirou και Αchillea Tziako for their valuable help.
The selected books are:
Alessandro Mazzola – Η.Μ.
Alexander Sharr – Between Two Lakes
Alfonso Moral – ZERO
Antigone Kourakou – Transfiguration
Artemis Pyrpilis – GRAMIE – Nette
Bruce Eesly – New Farmer
Carol Galinanes – It was a lie – Multiple
Chloe Nicosia – ONE HUNDRED TRILLION DOLLARS
Christos Dimitriou – the field trip
Diletta De Bortoli – Collettivo Animale L imbuto
Erasmia Chouliara – Whispers in radiance: Unveiling lives unseen
Federica Mambrini – Come costruire un castello di carte
Yiannis Ioakeimidis – bitter almond day
Ioanna Fragostefanaki – ΜΑΜ, ΚΑΚΑ & ΝΑΝΙ
Jennifer Drabbe – today is my new favourite day
Kanta Nomura – The Yoshida Dormitory Old Darkroom
Katya Selezneva – There Round the Corner in the Deep
Kostis Argyriadis – DD-MM-YYYY
Max Korndorfer – Zaunkonig
Pelly Mandreka – THE PRESENT
Romane Bourgeois – Marie, Maman, Grand-mère
Sotiris Kousoulos – Beyond the edge of the city
Yiming Zhu – Summoning

The results of the photographic portfolio contest Parallel Voices 2024 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 achieved to be part of our festival this year:

StreetMax21 – Karina Bikbulatova – Constance Jaeggi – Rocio Bueno Royo – Mouneb Taim

Kostis Karampinas – Thekla Malamou – Miranda Papadopoulou – Katerina Tsakiri

StreetMax21

Karina Bikbulatova

Constance Jaeggi

Rocio Bueno Royo

Mouneb Taim

Kostis Karampinas

Thekla Malamou

Miranta Papadopoulou

Katerina Tsakiri

The winners of Parallel Voices 2022 portfolio competition, who are going to exhibit their work at the festival this year, are:

 

Foteini Zaglara (GR)

Alexandros Zafeiridis (GR)

Vasilis Ntaopoulos (GR)

George Skouloudis (GR)

Ariadne Fytopoulou (GR)

Oskar Alvarado (ES)

Tobias Gambaro (AT)

O-Young Kwon (DE)

Cinzia Laliscia (IT)

 

Congratulations to the nine winners and thank everyone who participated!

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”

Photometria International Photography Festival wishing to continue the promotion of modern photographic creation, announces a portfolio contest from November 1st to December 31st 2022.

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 2023.

 

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

 

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:

 

 

Results

 

The results will be announced on February 1, 2023, 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 2023.

 

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 2022.

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.

 

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!

The 2nd Photometria Student Awards competition for 2022 is now over! We would like to thank everyone who participated and shared their photographic ideas, as well as those who rushed to support this project for another year. Especially Lila Zotou who singled out the winners:

 

 

1st prize: Balamos, Nikitas Sifonios

2nd prize: Loss, Martha Kapsoulaki

3rd prize: People, Eleni Morfoulia

4th prize: Indestructible Bonds, Ermione Xirou

 

 

The presentation of the exhibition, of the above 4 photographic series,

will be curated by Ioulia Ladogianni and Tasos Papadopoulos!

 

 

The exhibition will be hosted in the following places:

 

-1 Gallery, The Lounge Bar (Pargis Square)

Duration: 24.9 – 2.10.2022

Mon. – Sun.: 10:00 – 22:00

&

Φolk (Zappa 3)

Tues. – Sun.: 19:00 – 00:30

 

 

Be there!

The awards:

 

 

– 1st Prize: One year courses at the Contemporary Photography training program that takes place live at AKTO in Athens.

 

More information about the program you can find here.

 

or alternatively (in case the winner cannot attend the study program in Athens), two seminars of his choice from the series of online seminars of AKTO.

 

More information for the seminars you can find here. 

 

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– 2nd Prize: Educational program from IEK DELTA 360 

 

Annual scholarship to the “Art of Photography” program. The student can choose any structure in the 8 cities where IEK DELTA 360 is located, within a reasonable period of time. The complete curriculum of IEK DELTA 360 prepares excellently for the future professional photographer and fully covers both the theoretical background and his internship.

 

More information you can find here.

 

Facebook: IEKDELTA360

Instagram: IEKDELTA360

 

     

 

– 3rd Prize: Educational Programme by esp+

 

Through studying at the section Creative I of the programme e-learning ESP the student is introduced to the basic principles of photo composition, visual perception and semiology of the image. In the Creative II section the student performs two of his own individual works on the landscape and the portrait that constitute his portfolio and are designed so that they can take part in individual or group photography exhibitions. ESP e-learning programs are designed to be remote and personalized, with the student having weekly contact with his teacher through the esp+ educational platform, teleconferencing and email.

 

You can find more for the sections Creative I & II of the programme e-learning ESP here. 

 

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Instagram: ESP

 

 

– 4th Prize: Digital seminar for guidance – completion of a photo portfolio with Lila Zotou (Duration: 6 hours with the beginning of the new academic year)

Here is the selection of the 25 photographs of Photometria Awards 2022 “Looking for the light” competition:

• Tsygankova Daria Vasilevna, ”The dark knight”
• Akis Pasalidis, ”Untitled” @akis_pasalidis
• Noemi Comi, ”Deathfest” @noemicomi
• Vasilis Gonis, ”Don’t look at the sun” @gonisvassilis
• Vladimiros Tachmatzidis, “Trip to knowhere” @fourstreetsmixing
• Aggelos Barai, ”Untitled” @aggelos_barai
• Mohammad Reza Masoumi, ”Ahoora” @mohammadrezamasoumi_29
• Andi Abdul Halil, ”The Best Friend” @andihalil
• Nikos Konidaris, ”Angeliki” @nikos_konidaris
• Arezoo Babagoli, ”In the heart of the earth” @sheidababagoli
• Tatiana Mishchenko ”Ephemeral Motels”
• Sophia Tolika, “The escape of Philoctetes” @slolika
• Olga Tkachenko , ”Spring morning”
• Gali Tibbon, ”Cross of Light” @gali_tibbon_photographer
• Elina Kichheva, ”Shaman”
• Elena Kozlova, ”Natalie”
• Antonis Papakonstantinou, ”Light composition”
• Natalia Gorshkova, ”Jugglers”
• Maria Karofillidou, ”On the beach” @maria_karofillidou
• Matteo Capone, ”Solo” @matteo_capone
• Azamat Matkarimov, ”Mysterious shepherd”
• Ali Moarref, ”Pray for forgiveness” @ali.moarref
• Sasan Moayyedi, “Love Story” @sasan_moayyedi
• Sibusiso Bheka, ”Iparty” @sibusiso_bheka
• Isidoros Blougkaris, ”Breathe” @isidorosblougkaris

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

Animation – Video Art – Short Films – Documentary

 

We present to you the selected Animation, Video Art and Short Films of the Photometria in Motion 2022, which will be screened during the 14th edition of the Photometria International Photography Festival, in Ioannina. We would like to thank all those who responded to our invitation with their participation and especially those whose films we will enjoy live!

 

Animation

 

Sky Sun ,Tile Sun, Ziba Arzhang

The Tree Has Been Planted, Irene Blei

Jealousy, Kimberly Burleigh

Depths Of Night, Step C.

Along The Wall, Mustapha El Fakkak

The Statue, Mohsen Salehi Fard

Om, Gabriela Fernández

Return, Jonathan Delgado Herrera

Bodies that fight, Catalina Ibañez

Bart’s Revenge, Gus Kearns

Manga Girls, Yuki Kedoin, Takashi Okado

Yaf Youf, Athina Georgia Koumela

The song of yue, Bofan Li, Han Yang

Living in a Bubble, Natalie MacMahon, Nikola Drvoshanov

Sunny Day of Mr. Drop, Parham Manian

Rising in a Spiral, Débora Mendes, Elmano Diogo

 Life, Mohammad Mohammadian

Shift Simmers Slips, Lars Nagler

Another Coincidence, Dan Rule

EndFGM, Alexia Roider

Lines, Ivan Stojkovic

Final Deathtination, Marika Tamura

The Fourfold, Alisi Telengut

Whisper, Rustle, Maureen Zent

 

Video Art

 

Home Movie, Tal Alperstein

Come Closer, Hrund Atladóttir

New York Minute, Lynn Bianchi

In Memory Of, Mattia Bioli

Dehumanized, Louis Brückner

Simplon, Johann Calderón

Fight in Motion, Jon Cheung

Closet, Diana Chemeris

Vulture, Joshua Curry

Muria, Ismael Aveleira Escapa, Marina Diez González

Press Pound to Connect, Alexander Fingrutd

Widow’s End, Jil Guyon

We apologize for any inconvenience, Juan Carlos García-Sampedro

Entropy, Werther Germondari

Otonashi, Martin Gerigk

Holon, Eden Bezalel Habas

1975 of my mother and me, Jun-Yuan Hong

Sand and Gravel, Maroffylia Kondyli, George Demertzis

Almost Transparent Blue, Kang Le

Some Mistakes I Have Made, Janis Lipzin

Beyond Agog, Linda Loh

Alice in Covid-land, Tina Mamali

Images of the mystical symposion, Milan Milosavljević

Experimental Clicks, Kostiantyn Mishchenko

The New World: Variations on Stay-home Activities, Hong Ning, Zhao Xiaofeng

Parenthesis, Vasilios Papaioannu

Luminous 2, Matthew Pell

Hiperrealidades, Carlos S. Peña

Backstage (music video INVERSION the sound of isolation), Kristina Alekseevna Petukhina

Empty Object with Music for Two Pianos, Stephen Richardson

Assemblages, Matthew Schoen, Carmen Jaci, Nathalie Vanderveken

Water, I will be Air, Roderick Steel

Summer 2001, Inna V.

Bloom, Frederico Ludwig Vidovix

The Builder, Kobi Vogman

Stone Eve, Isabelle Vorle

Transformation, Telemach Wiesinger

 

Documentary

 

The Arrival of the White Elephants, Juan Pablo Alarcón Alvarado

Dajla: cinema and oblivion, Arturo Dueñas Herrero

Marika… why be afraid, Matthaios Frantzeskakis

Elle, Liliane, Liliane Mutti

The Face of a City, Farhad Pakdel

“I’m a recovering racist”, Grant Sissons, Shahir Chundra

Organic, Egor Subbotin

L.A. Rises, GB Young, Oliver Ponce

 

Short Films

 

Confusion, Aashuka Aryal

A Thousand Nights, Antonious Bassily

The Last Journey, Corentin Camplong

Break both Legs!, Francisco Coronil

Dora, Joanne Delachair

Painting for the Main Bedroom, Ilias D. Doulis

Form, Saeid Ghasemi

Inertia, Shayan Habibi

Anagnorisis, Arturo Dueñas Herrero

Violetta, Fivos Imellos

Interview, Hanna Jalali

DEATH LOCKED OUT, Amir Karami

The wind girl, Dana Karim

Hit List // The Love Project, Jamie Kassler

Forbidden Birth, Sohrab Kavir

Still your child. A Daughter., Helena Kominac

Beauty, Thanos Liberopoulos

Do You Like Poetry?, Eduardo Mattos

Out of breath (Sans Oxygène), Liliane Mutti

Midnight Bleu, Martin Neveu

Wasted Milk, Alkiviadis Papadopoulos, Katerina Adamidou

Long Live The People!, Nicolás Torres Payán

Just A Thought, Matteo Pizzocaro

Tomorrow is a long time, Ioannis Plas

National Psychographic, Eleni Poulopoulou

Marko, Marko Šantić

Twist, Ovsanna Shekoyan

Petrichor, Gustavo Silva

Background, Pratap VitthaIrao Sonale

Sorrow, Stefan Teofilovic

Brothers Again, Vanja Victor Kabir Tognola

Just Like Water, Manos Triantafillakis

Imago Diabolus, Abraham Mike Yousaf

Frozen Out, Hao Zhou