Important distinction For Ilias Lois and Katerina Tsakiris, graduates of our Department, at Futures Photography.

Here’s a taste of their works, find more on our website!⁠

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Graduate student Ioanna Spentzou of the Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts received an honorable mention for her work Absentin at the 9th World Biennial of Student Photography 2023 which will be inaugurated on Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at the Gallery of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad of Serbia.

A record number of applications for the Biennale 2023 competition (nearly 500) from 44 countries on five continents resulted in a major exhibition that will feature over 230 works by 37 creators.

Link : https://studentbiennialns.com/photography/#finalists 

https://studentbiennialns.com/opening-of-the-9th-world-biennial-of-student-photography/ 

Project title : Absentin, 2022, Ioanna Spetzou

Description: The photographic series “Absentin” is proof that I have been a wanderer. It’s a calendar made up of four self-contained tracks/subsections that don’t conform to the “beginning-middle-end” tripartite. The resulting narrative relates less to place or time, but rather to a state of mind. Photography becomes a catalytic medium that allows me to come to terms with my constant desire for literal and inner wandering. The trees are bare, the landscape misty, and a pile of dry leaves bisects the path. It’s winter. Only a moment of sunlight is enough to reveal to me that I am really there, and defeated by space-time, I am in a primordial dialogue with the landscape. photographing not only my shadow but also the imaginary reflections of myself. The pictured figures turn into images in my mental mirror.

• The photographic series was carried out by the student of the department, in the context of the Curating and Publishing Subjects course under the guidance and supervision of the professors Ms. Natasha Mark

ίδου και κα Ηώ Πάσχου.

Link : https://studentbiennialns.com/photography/#finalists 

https://studentbiennialns.com/opening-of-the-9th-world-biennial-of-student-photography/ 

The photographic series “Fallen Memories” by the student Maria Tulcinaki of the Department of Photography and Audiovisual Media, was distinguished and presented in the context of the 15th Photometria International Photography Festival, in the Student Awards 2023 category. The founder and artistic director of the Festival, Panagiotis Papoutsis, selected the works four student photographers after an open call, while the presentation of the exhibition was curated by Iulia Ladogianni and Tasos Papadopoulos.

The “Student Awards 2023” exhibition was presented on September 23 to October 8, 2023, at the CompArt Factory, Aravadinou 6 in Ioannina. The photographic series was carried out by the student of the department, in the context of the course “Aesthetic Theories for photography” of the D semester, under the guidance and supervision of the professor Mrs. Io Pashou.

A few words about the project:

FallenMemories, Athens, 2023

A photograph captures a moment by preserving it in time. It imprisons the image and keeps it eternally alive, preventing its decomposition within the human mind. But the paper is perishable. It can be burned or torn and thus the image it represents is lost or transformed. Project using mixed media, between digital file and hand-damaged paper, creates an intermediate space between the wear and tear of human memories.

Maria Tultsinaki

The multi-awarded Director of Photography and for many years a close collaborator of the late director Thodoros Angelopoulos, Giorgos Arvanitis, was awarded an honorary Doctorate of the F.O.T. Department. of PADA in a special ceremony that took place at the Ancient Olive Conference Center of the University of Western Attica, on Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Giorgos Arvanitis spoke with the warmest words about his work and his colleagues and thanked PADA for the great honor it gave him

Vassilis Constantinou, Pregnant Pauses

Photometria Awards 2020

The student of the Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts Vassilis Konstantinou received the second prize at the Photometria Awards 2020 International Festival in the “Stalk me” section with his work “Pregnant Pauses”. The work was carried out in the framework of the Critical Theory of Photography workshops

Athens Photo World 2019

In its first event, Athens Photo World awarded the first Athens Photo World Award 2019 to Giannis Antonopoulos for the photographic series “South East of Eden”, which is a presentation of the contemporary image of the Balkans. The award took place on Sunday, June 16, at the Alternative Stage of the National Opera House at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.

The event was prefaced by Spyros Alexopoulos, from the Donations Department of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. The internationally renowned photojournalist and friend of Yiannis Behrakis, James Nachtwey supported the Athens Photo World with his presence and Santiago Lyon, content manager of Adobe, presented the award.

Empowering photographers/photojournalists and promoting their work is one of the main pillars of Athens Photo World and the concept it was founded on.

The entries of the first competition for the Athens Photo World Award 2019 once again proved the quality of work and the wide range of interest of photographers living and working in Greece and Cyprus.

The judging panel for 2019 consisted of:

President: Aristotelis Sarrikostas, first Greek photojournalist of the Associated Press agency from 1964 to 1996 Nikandri Koukoulioti,

director of advertising and corporate relations at the Magnum Photos agency in ParisPenelope Petsini, Historian of Photography,

Professor at the Department of Political Science and History of Panteion UniversityIrini Vourloumi,Photographer collaborating with the New York TimesThanasis Stavraki,

Photographer, Head of Photographic Department of the Associated Press Agency for Greece, Cyprus, Albania and North Macedonia.

Panagis Chrysovergis

EPA International Photography Competition (Events Photography Awards) 2018, United Kingdom:

1st prize in the Private Events category & 1st place in the People’s Choice category & 2nd place in the general competition.