17 Jun 6/2019 – Athens Photo World 2019

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 Paris
• Penelope Petsini, Historian of Photography,Professor at the Department of Political Science and History of Panteion University
• Irini Vourloumi, Photographer collaborating with the New York Times
• Thanasis Stavraki, Photographer, Head of Photographic Department of the Associated Press Agency for Greece, Cyprus, Albania and North Macedonia.