A two-day event of Digital Projections
18 – 19 January 2025
Technopolis City of Athens
Gasholder 1 – Auditorium “Miltiadis Evert”
Athens Photo World, the annual photojournalism festival of Athens, returns to the city’s cultural scene for its sixth year.
Athens Photo World, which takes place on 18 and 19 January at Technopolis City of Athens, is organising its first Digital Projection Weekend and presenting the Athens Photo World 2024 Award.
In a space that encourages discussion, communication and interaction between creators and the public, Athens Photo World will present:
Selected works of eight (8) photojournalists
related to current affairs of Greece and the world.
The projections will be followed by a public discussion with the creators.
This event has already been successfully piloted in 2019 and 2021 in four different locations in Athens: Propylaea NKUA, the Association of Greek Archaeologists, the Technopolis City of Athens and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC).
The photographers whose work will be on show are:
Petros Giannakouris, “Afghanistan Desperate Times”
Louisa Gouliamaki, “The Human Cost”
Alkis Konstantinidis, “Only the Dead Have Seen the End of War”
Aris Messinis, “Behind the Image”
Antonios Pasvantis, “Life on the banks”
Michalis Patsouras, “07:00 – 15:00”
Nikos Pilos, “Resisting Residents”
Byron Smith, “Testament ‘22”
Video is now a news medium that complements photographic work. Without one medium replacing or substituting the other, the experienced photographers use the moving image to contextualise with sound and commentary what their lens has captured.
Two videos will be screened:
Screening of the
World Press Photo 2024 winners’ showcase
(Saturday, 18/1)
A 45-minute video showcasing the winning photos of the World Press Photo 2024 contest, with a few words from their creators.
Screening of the documentary “20 days in Mariupol”
Mstyslav Chernov, Associated Press
(Sunday, 19/1)
Winner of last year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
An account of the events of the Russian invasion of Mariupol through the eyes of an Associated Press videographer, which has already been screened at international festivals such as Sundance and won the 2024 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
The events will be attended by: Mstyslav Chernov, creator of the documentary “20 days in Mariupol”, and the Brazilian-born, Amsterdam-based World Press Photo curator Raphael Dias e Silva, who will interact with both the Athens Photo World team and the audience.
The two-day digital screenings, an initiative presented to the public for the first time this year, is organized by Athens Photo World with the significant support of PPC and the Ministry of Culture.
The Athens Photo World Award is an important focal point for Greek photojournalists, as it gives them another opportunity to showcase their work; in addition to financial support.
Each year the jury is made up of three members, who are chosen by the Athens Photo World team.
The aim is –and so far has been achieved– to include on the jury professionals with different photographic orientations, such as photojournalists alongside academics and fine art photographers or photo editors from major news and online organisations.
For the sixth year running, Athens Photo World, with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and the PPC, is organising the annual Photojournalism Contest for professional photographers living and working in Greece and/or Cyprus.
This year, Athens Photo World will award a total of five thousand euros (5,000 euros) to three completed or ongoing documentary or photojournalistic photography projects, as follows:
First Prize: Three Thousand euros (3.000 euros)
Second Prize: One Thousand Five Hundred euros (1,500 euros)
Third Prize: Five Hundred euros (500 euros)
For 2024, the jury will be made up of photographers Michalis Karagiannis, Pepi Loulakaki and Orestis Panagiotou.
Participation in the Athens Photo World Award contest is free of charge.
The three finalists for the Athens Photo World 2024 Award are as follows, in alphabetical order:
Petros Giannakouris
Spyridon Paloukis
Michalis Patsouras
They will be awarded on Sunday 19 January 2025 at an event to be held at Gasholder 1 – Auditorium “Miltiadis Evert”, in Technopolis City of Athens.
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