Karina Bikbulatova was born in Russia in 1995. She graduated from the University of Culture and Art in Moscow for a photography course. I also studied at the Academy of fine arts in Florence. I am also a finalist and winner of many international photography competitions and awards. For me, photography is a convenient and universal language. There are things I don’t want to talk about, because I find it difficult to find words in Russian, Tatar, English, Italian, and the plastic language comes to the rescue, the language of photography, which I know better than others.

Kostis Karampinas is a self-taught photographer with a deep appreciation for the authenticity and beauty of provincial Greece, focusing on exploring and capturing the enchanting landscapes that illuminate untold stories. Engaging with the process and nuances of film photography, he finds joy in unveiling the unique charm of rural areas, showcasing their genuine character and evoking emotions tied to their poignant history of solitude.

Miranda Papadopoulou began her involvement with photography in 2014, attending workshops in Thessaloniki, where I currently reside. She has participated in group exhibitions and published the photographic book “Youth on Hold.” Through photography, she observes the world and narrates stories. She discovers the value of objects and situations, giving them her own significance. She seeks light, allowing the photos to speak for her.

Exhibitions:
2023 – Group exhibition “Holon” (with Dimitra Andreou & Sylvia Arapidou), Bordde L’Eau, Thessaloniki
2017 – 2022 – Participation in the annual group exhibitions of Stereosis

PhotographyClasses:
2014 – 2016 – Photography classes with Tasos Schizas
2017 – 2022 – Photography classes & completion of the 5-course series, Stereosis School of Photography
2021 – Short Photography Seminar with Stratos Kalafatis

Photographic Book – Self-published:
“Youth on Hold”

Mouneb Taim, born in 2001 in Damascus, Syria. He worked on covering news stories with a focus on social issues. He is working freelance photojournalism with international agencies began his career in 2014, where he covered life under siege in different areas of Syria until early 2022, and documented massacres, destruction and life with people under caused air strikes and bombing almost daily, during the ten years he lived under siege in his city. Arrested and tortured by Islamic organizations for his journalistic activism, he won many international awards

Rocío Bueno Royo is a visual creator, photographer and economist. She works on issues related to women and their current construction, inheritance, fragility of memory and the barely perceptible. She is interested in relating photography to other visual arts. Her works have been recognized on several occasions, highlighting the Honorable Mention at Encontros da Imagem, Braga, and the first prize at Festival Baffest de Baracaldo, both in 2021, or the honorable mention at Lumínic Festival in 2023. She has exhibited in museums, festivals and art spaces in Spain, France, Chile and Portugal, including Matadero de Madrid, the Museum of Photography in Huete, the Les Rencontres d’Arlés International Photography Festival, the ArtsLibris fair ARCOmadrid or the Valparaíso International Photography Festival. She has self-published three photobooks, “Hilo” in 2019, acquired by the MOMA Library in New York, for the author’s book collection; “Renascense”, finalist of the PhotoEspaña 2022 Festival; and “You, me, them, us” in 2023.

StreetMax21 was born in Scotland, he works mainly in London and Norfolk, UK.
His street photography has been shown in various festivals and group shows internationally. Having been selected as the Juror’s Pick in the LensCulture Street Photography Awards in 2017, he has gone on to win several awards including series winner at PHOS Athens, Best Series award at Streetfoto, San Francisco in 2017, street category winner of the Neutral Density Awards and series winner in the 13th Pollux Awards street category in 2019. He has shown also in a number of galleries in the United Kingdom, United States, Hungary, Greece, Turkey, Italy, France and Spain. In 2020, he became a member of the street photography collective iN-PUBLIC, and was included in its first online exhibition The Square Mile. He was a top 50 photographer in Photolucida Critical Mass 2023, and was selected as a Talent in Fresh Eyes 2024.

Thekla Malamou is a photographer and documentary filmmaker. Her film work has been awarded at international festivals, including Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival, Festival International du Film d’Environnement in Paris, Documentarist International Film Festival in Istanbul, Finisterra Film Festival in Portugal, Krakow Film Festival, Korean Green Film Festival and the Ecofest in Romania. She has traveled and worked as a freelance photographer in several assignments in countries such as Israel, Turkey, Morocco, Cape Verde, Thailand and Sicily. Her photographic work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, including the Benaki Museum, the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, the 18th International Photography Festival – PHOTOSYNKYRIA and she representated Greece at the 12th Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean in Naples of Italy (-awarded prize for ‘Voyeurisms-Mental Spaces’). In 2010, Thekla co-founded with Stratis Vogiatzis the ‘Caravan Project’, an initiative which was funded by Stavros Niarchos foundation. ‘Caravan Project’ is a nomadic body; a collective, which is driving documentary filmmaking, photography and other forms of storytelling, through the development of participatory practices.

Katerina Samara was born in Larissa, Greece, in 1988. She graduated from Photography and Audiovisual Art Department of Technological Educational Institute of Athens in 2012 and she completed her Masters of Art in Public Spheres at Ecole Cantonale d’ Art du Valais in Sierre, Switzerland, in 2014 for which she also received the prize of the city of Sierre 2014. She works with photography, video but also installations made from objects, embroideries and threads. She is interested in artistic research, writing and collaboration. During 2015-2016 she worked at “Atelier Tremplin” on her research project on family and memory in the Artistic and Cultural Centre of Sion “Ferme-Asile” which led her to her first solo exhibition “Le goût de la mémoire”. The “BEA for young artists” foundation supported this residency. In 2021 she obtains the Research Schorlaship of Canton du Valais. She participated to collective and solo exhibitions in Switzerland and Greece. Her works are part of public and private collections. Katerina is an engaged artist, member of Visarte Valais, professional association of artists, and committee member. Currently, she lives in Athens and works between, Switzerland and Greece. 

Ioanna Sakellaraki (b.1989) is a Greek visual artist and researcher. She was recently awarded a Doctoral Scholarship for undertaking her PhD in Art after graduating with an MA Photography from the Royal College of Art. She is the recipient of The Royal Photographic Society Bursary Award 2018 and was the winner of a Sony World Photography Award in 2020. In 2019, she was awarded with the Reminders Photography Stronghold Grant in Tokyo and the International Photography Grant Creative Prize. Nominations include: the Inge Morath Award by Magnum Foundation in USA, the Prix HSBC, the Prix Levallois and the Prix Voies Off in France. Her work has been exhibited internationally in art festivals and galleries with recent solo shows in Melbourne, Tokyo, Belfast, Braga and Berlin. Her projects have been featured in magazines such as The New Yorker, TIME, Aesthetica and Wallpaper and journals including The Guardian, Financial Times and Deutsche Welle. She has been invited as a guest speaker in the Martin Parr Foundation and the London Institute of Photography amongst others. Her monograph ‘The Truth is in the Soil’ is published by London- based publisher GOST Books.