PRIVATE 24 | The Evolution of Contemporary Greek Photography

Cover photo: © Dimitris Tsoublekas

Stelios Efstathopoulos | Fade out

Each photograph seems to divide the world in two: into a very small part, defined by the photographic frame, which describes a specific space or event, and another surrounding it… Continue reading →

Eleni Mouzakiti | Backstage photographs

This series of photographs were taken between the years 1996-1997 in the wings of different theatres in Athens and Thessaloniki. 26 photographs were exhibited… Continue reading →

Takis Roidakis | Aegean sea

One great Greek poet, Odysseus Elitis, winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize for literature said, among other things, while soliloquizing in his Self-Portrait… Continue reading →

Costas Ordolis | Athenians

The Athenians effectively marks the bounds of my career as a photographer, which began 18 years ago, in the darkroom of my old fellow-student at the POS Stathis Triantis… Continue reading →

Georgios Kartsagelos | Portraits in the Mental Hospital

The people who live the next to us is my subject. We usually tent to forget that some of us have different needs. My photographs want to remind us this fact… Continue reading →

Dimitris Tsoublekas

Nikos Economopoulos

Paris Petrides | Mediated life – The constracted Greek landscape

A work-in-progress, this series, deals with aspects of contemporary life: the notion of artificiality, our alienation from nature, the displacement of nature itself… Continue reading →

Savvas Lazaridis

Ilias Bourgiotis | European South

There are two dominant features that one cannot help but notice while travelling in Greece, Italy, Southern France, Spain and Portugal: sea and the sun… Continue reading →

Nikos Koukis | Our life, a course, a passage…

One heads his own way, follows his own path, unfolds his personal tale.  Moments of pleasure those when we come across the people working on the… Continue reading →

Eleni Maligoura | Readings

To find oneself in the landscape of Delphi is a global experience which photography is incapable of describing. This is a uniform, indivisible landscape, one whose… Continue reading →

Dimitris Yeros | Open Kitchen (Broken Homes), 1999-2001

My photos about monuments are part of a wider project about suburbs, cities, Greek landscapes and ambitions. The title of the project is Open Kitchen (Broken Homes)… Continue reading →

Yiannis Marapas | Portraits

The Portraits of Yiannis Marapas are images which both draw on and enrich the special tradition of the psychological portrait. Eschewing superfluous or merely decorative details… Continue reading →

Viktor Koen | Makers of Tlon

The “Makers of Tlon” is a pantheon of monsters and villains. Physical and metaphysical portraits, where the skin is transparent, unable to conceal the true contents of the characters… Continue reading →

Alexandros Avramides | On the Shores of Ogygia

Ogygia was the name by which Homer designated the little island of Gavdos, of the southern coast of Crete. These photographs by Alexandros Avramides transport us to that island… Continue reading →

Takis Zerdevas | Pre-linguistic experimentation

Through his recent work Takis Zerdevas comes to confront a problem which every artist addressing strictly to the spectatorís visual perception is supposed to manage with… Continue reading →

Simos Saltiel

Athina Chroni | Self-portrait

The model (= the person being taken picture of) will loose or keep some of the characteristic elements of its personality regardless the fact that an effort has been made… Continue reading →

Aris Georgiou | Blue telephone book / 2001-…/Work in progress

This is the last small pocket agenda that I used to use for about ten years before we got well into the digital era. For quite some time I thought it was my new, shiny… Continue reading →

Thodoris Hourmouziades | Salt Pans

Little landscapes in white. Another country under the same sky. White mountains, white plains, white coasts; in little… Continue reading →

Melinna Kaminari

Yiagos Athanassopoulos

La tematica che voglio mettere in risalto in questa sequenza di foto si basa sulla linea che divide la terra dal mare. Su questo limite tra due consistenze fisiche differenti pongo in evidenza la presenza umana… Continue reading →

Epaminondas Schizas

This work consists of a series of photographs depicting coastal landscapes of Attika, as seen from a different angle, with the underwater scenery often… Continue reading →