Antonios Pasvantis was born in Kavala.
He studied Electrical Engineering at Brunel University in West London and Photography at the Leica Academy in Athens. He worked as a photo reporter and photojournalist for Greek and foreign publications from 2007 to 2013. In 2015, he covered the refugee crisis in Mytilene and Idomeni, and these photographs were featured in a group exhibition at the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography.
Since 2016, he has been photographing on the Greek-Turkish border, mainly in the Evros region.
Images from his book collection have traveled to international festivals in Italy, Russia and Israel.
His photographic story from the Alevi community of Evros made him the winner of Athens Photo World 2023.
The journey begins with a metaphysical/metaphorical question about the meaning of boundaries and how they affect people’s lives. The questions that concerned me were many: what is the atmosphere at the borders and what kind of social, political and human environment is being formed?
It was not an easy journey, and at first it was not at all what I expected. There were many times when I came back without any pictures and thought about giving up.
Céline says people make it hard. That is, their own lives. When I arrived at the border, I understood that I was dealing with life, the real life of people. I had to get in touch with these lives. I could not avoid meeting them, no matter how many metaphysical questions I asked. Because life unfolded on the banks in front of me. For me, working on the geographic edges of a place is particularly interesting because the edges have a wild effect on the psychology of the community, on the behavior, and on the very human condition of the frontiers people.
At the edges things go into another dimension.
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