Stephie Grape was born in Zakynthos Island and now she lives and works in Athens. She has studied at the Law School of Athens and after that at Focus School of Photography (2013-14) and at D.I.E.K. Kifissias, Department of Photography (2014-16). Since then, she has attended the Contemporary Art Photography seminar (2017) curated by A. Zaverdas and the Dust Breeding Laboratory of Y. Karaellas and Y. Printos (2019). Her work has been presented in the exhibition Young Greek Photographers of Athens Photo Festival 2020 and she has participated in several group exhibitions. Also, part of her work is presented in the online gallery The Queer Archive Artshop. In recent years, I am in collaboration with the contemporary dance group Stereo Nero and she has worked as a photographer for the International airport El. Venizelos, for foreign and greek media (Vice France, Lifo Mag etc), for the National Museum of Contemporary Art (intership 2017-18) and she has participated in the video installation Laboratory of Dilemmas by G. Drivas for the Venice Biennale 2017.

Instagram: stephie_grape

Sakis Dazanis was born in 1967. He lives and works as an IT teacher in Kozani. Started photography in 2009. Attended photography seminars by Jacob Sobol, Platon Rivellis and Paris Petridis. Photography is beyond a tool of expression for him, an effort to socialize and understand fellow human beings, to explore and appropriate the urban and suburban landscape, a constant search for beauty and simplicity in the trivials. In 2014 he organized his first solo exhibition “On-Off” in his hometown. He participated in the group exhibition of the Photographic Circle “Family” at the Benaki Museum in 2015, while in 2016 in the “Cultural Landscapes” in Athens and in the group exhibition of Jacob Sobol “HOME” in Sydney. This year at Drama International Photo Festival and at “Tolerances” Photo Exhibition held in Athens and Norway. Many participations and distinctions at international street photography festivals (Miami, London, Sydney, Brussels).

Website: Sakis Dazanis

Instagram: sakisdazanis

Antonis Panagopoulos was born in Selianitika, Aigio in 1961 and is a lawyer in Aigio.

He has been involved in photography as an amateur since 1981.

He has organized and participated in over 20 group and individual photography exhibitions in Aigio, Patras, Messolonghi, Leonidio, Athens etc.

He is a founding member of the photography club “IDYFOS” in Patras.

His photos have been published in the magazines “FOTOGRAFOS” and “PHOTO”.

Lefteris Paraskevaidis (1980) was born and raised in Thessaloniki. He lives and works in Athens as a professional photographer (shooting events, concerts, theatre and portraits). He also studies History of European Culture at the Hellenic Open University. Apart from his commissioned work, he develops personal photographic projects. In his work he focuses on the notion of identity and stereotypes and he also explores different aspects and conditions of everyday life and the behavior of the individual in the public realm. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Greece (solo exhibitions: Renowned Cities/2006, Urban Chromoforms/2013, Dark Village/2014, Rapid Eye Movement/2017). His photographic projects have been presented at international photo festivals such as Thessaloniki Photobiennale 2021, Antiparos International Photo Festival (AIPF), Art and Culture vs Xenophobia (A+CvsX), The PhotoWerkBerlin (European month of Photography 2020) and published at various international online photography magazines and platforms.

Website: Lefteris Paraskevaidis

Instagram: left_par

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Penelope Thomaidi is a documentary photographer from Greece, based in Athens. Member of Hans Lucas agency since 2018.
Interested in the relation between people and their territory, in her personal practice she pursues long-term projects exploring social and environmental issues. Her work often focuses on subjects with a special relation to memory, self-determination and resistance.
Her work A Zone To Defend has been shown in Helsinki Photo Festival 2019 (winner of the Open Call #Anarchy), as well as at the Young Greek Photographers exhibition in the context of the Athens Photo Festival 2019 and was also screened at the VOIES OFF in Arles in 2018. With the same project she won the 1st prize of Spéos Awards 2018 #Reportage and was a finalist of La Bourse du Talent 2018 #Landscape.
She is a graduate of “Creative Documentary and Photojournalism” one-year masterclass programme coordinated by Magnum Photos and Spéos International School of Photography in Paris (2018) with a background in Fine Arts, holding a Masters Degree in Artistic Production and Research from the University of Barcelona and a BA in Plastic Arts and Art Sciences from the University of Ioannina, Greece. Before fully committing to photography, she gained professional experience in graphic design and communication. Co-founder of WHAT IF Design Studio in Athens since 2013.
Her photography has been published in print and online media in Greece, France and Ireland. While her artistic work has been shown in exhibitions in Greece, Spain and Brazil.

Vasilis Nempegleriotis was born in Larissa, in central Greece in 1987. He has been an amateur photographer since 2015. He participated in a photography seminar of the photography crew named “Orama Photos” for 8 months during 2018. He has joined the photography crew Fplus since 2018 . His photographs were presented in exhibitions including photographs of the Fplus crew. In 2019 her created his first own photography exhibition in Larissa.