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 for the first time this year a two-day event during which it presents a Digital Projection Weekend and awards the Athens Photo World 2024 Award.
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 video of the winners of the
World Press Photo 2024
(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.
The jury is made up each year 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.
This year, Athens Photo World, with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and PPC, is organising for the sixth year running the annual Photojournalism Contest, for professional photographers living and working in Greece and/or Cyprus.
Athens Photo World will award this year 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.
Winner for the 2024 contest was Associated Press Photographer Petros Giannakouris received the sum of three thousand euros (3.000€) for his project “The war in Ukraine counts more than 1.000 days”. The award was presented to Giannakouris by Ukranian video journalist of Associated Press, Mstyslav Chernov. Both Giannakouris and Chernov expressed their mutual admiration and appreciation and also talked about their friendship that has grown strong through the missions where they have worked together all around the world.
The second prize of one thousand and five hundred euros (1.500€) was awarded to Michalis Patsouras (already APWA winner for 2022), for his project “In the rift of time”.
The third prize of five hundred euros (500€) was awarded to Spyros Paloukis for his project “Love one another: The portrait of Faith in Greece”.
All three winners expressed their gratitude to Athens Photo World and the audience for their presence, while Petros Giannakouris emphasized the importance of Athens Photo World for the dissemination of contemporary photojournalism in Greek reality.
The first phase of Athens Photo World 2025 is funded by the Ministry of Culture and supported by the City of Athens Culture, Sports and Youth Organization (OPANDA), the National Garden, Megaron – Athens Concert Hall and the international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Thanassis Stavrakis / Artistic Director
Yiannis Kolesidis / Curator – Coordinator of Digital Projections
Christina Kalligianni / General Coordination
Outdoor photography exhibition at the Railings of the National Garden
Photographers: Agence France Press (AFP) Photographers
Duration: Wednesday, 25 June – Sunday, 31 August 2025.
Outdoor photography exhibition at the Railings of Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall
Photographers: Thomas Daskalakis
Duration: Wednesday, 25 June – Sunday, 14 September 2025.
