Kostis Argiriadis (Parallel Voices)

Kostis Argyriadis is a photographer born in 1981 in Thessaloniki, Greece, where he lives and works. He attended ESP Photography in Thessaloniki with scholarship. He studied under Stratos Kalafatis, attending his seminars and at the photographic IEK ESP with scholarship.
His work was first published along with other photographers in 2012 in a project curated by Hercules Papaioannou and about the urban landscape of Thessaloniki.
In 2013 he published his first photographic project, by Agra publications, on the subject of the mediocrity of visual content in the city.
The album was followed by an solo exhibition at the National Bank of Greece’s Cultural Foundation (MIET) as well as at the Ianos art galleries in Athens and Thessaloniki.
He participated at the 2017 edition of Festival Circulations in Paris invited (Carte Blanche) by Hercules Papaioannou.
In 2018, he participated at the exhibition “Thessaloniki: Looking at time through moments: photographs 1900-2017″ at the Museum of European Culture in Berlin, curated by the director of Thessaloniki’s Museum of Photography.
He participated at the photographic album “a walk in the city, Bech Tsinar”, curated by the curator of Thessaloniki’s Museum of Photography, as well as at the photographic album “City of female gender”, where he attempts to explore multifaceted and luxuriant presence of women in Thessaloniki over six decades.
His work has to do with the insignificance of the visual content of cities and the wandering within them.
His works are exhibited at the Municipality of Thessaloniki’s Art Gallery, at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, as well as in private collectors .