We would like to introduce you to the brilliant photographers who will show their work between the 10th and 18th July 2021 at the Antiparos International Photo Festival.
Our Guest of Honour
Stratos Kalafatis
Stratos Kalafatis was born in Kavala, Greece, in 1966. He lives in Thessaloniki and has created, along with Lia Nalbantidou, STUDIOTESSERA, a photography platform with educational, publishing and artistic activities. During the last thirty years, he has presented his photographic works at many private galleries, museums, festivals and artistic events throughout the world. His works are included in private and public collections.
The following works of his are available from Agra publications: Archetypal Images(1999), Omonoia 2000 – A journey to the heart of Athens, with texts by Philippos Philippou (2000), Journal 1998-2002 (2004), Athos / The colours of faith (1st edition2014), (2nd edition 2018), Archipelago (2017). He is represented by the Bernier / Eliades gallery.
Vasilis Nempegleriotis
Greece
This year, the AIPF’s Selection Committee judged Vasilis’ submission as the best overall in terms of technical skill and aesthetic interpretation of the theme. He wins the X-A5 camera and lens kindly donated by Fujifim.
Vasilis Nempegleriotis (b.1987) is a Greek amateur photographer based in Larissa, central Greece. He has been expressing his fantasy through the medium of photography since 2015. He is self-taught and participated in a photography seminar with John Stratoudakis and Natassa Karakatsani in 2018. In the same year, he became a member of the Fplus photography group. His photographs have been featured in group exhibitions, including the Photometria International Festival in the category “Parallel Voices” and “Anthropause” (Momus), and in a solo exhibition of his project “Meadow of Asphodelus”, Mill of Pappas – Larissa (2019).
Angeliki Fragkiadaki
Greece
My name is Angeliki Fragkiadaki, I was born in 1995 in Rethymno, Greece. I like road trips, cats and late-night conversations with friends. I always found taking pictures exciting, and my excitement grew after attending photography seminars in Stereosis, Thessaloniki. Ever since then, I have been trying to express who I am through my camera lens. Since last year, I have been taking photography classes in Rethymno. Until today, I have participated in some group photo exhibitions and also had a solo one.
Curro Rodriguez
Spain
With a Master’s degree in Contemporary Photography from Eftí, Madrid, Curro resides in Iceland. His work is situated between photography, video, and performance in natural spaces. He has participated in international video art exhibitions: IVAHM, Madrid, and WOW Venice. He has also taken part in exhibitions such as Begira Photo, Pa-ta-ta Photography, and Ser-Aqui, in Cádiz. His awards and distinctions include the Upcycling and Photoalicante prizes. His work has been published in “On Nature”, by NONFICTION Paris, Handbali Magazine, and EXC! Magazine.
Despina Pilati
Greece
Despina Pilati studied Business Administration at the University of Piraeus and photography at the Photography Circle with Platon Rivellis. She has been involved in photography since 2003, and has been a member of the Photography Circle since 2005. She has participated in exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Her photographs have appeared in print and in electronic media, as well as on the covers of poetry and literary books. She has collaborated with artists from the theatre and music scene for shooting programmes, album covers, etc. In 2013, her album Despoina Pilati: Photographs was published by Kichli Publications.
Kosmas Iliadis
Greece
Kosmas Iliadis was born in northern Greece in 1991. While he was studying economics, he realised that he was spending most of his time experimenting with photography. In 2014, he started taking seminars at the Stereosis Photograhy Center in Thessaloniki and had his first contact with analogue photography. His debut project ‘Present Tense’ has been featured in online and printed publications and shown in various shows. ‘Intimate Paths’ is his second photo project.
Lefteris Paraskevaidis
Greece
Lefteris Paraskevaidis (1980) was born and raised in Thessaloniki. He lives and works in Athens as a professional photographer (shooting events, concerts, theatre and portraits). Apart from his commissioned work, he develops personal photographic projects. In his work, he focuses on the notion of identity and stereotypes and he also explores different aspects and conditions of everyday life and the behaviour of the individual in the public realm.
His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Greece (solo exhibitions: Renowned Cities/2006, Urban Chromoforms/2013, Dark Village/2014, Rapid Eye Movement/2017). His photographic projects have been published in various international online photography magazines and platforms.
Lise Létourneau
Canada
Lise Létourneau lives and works in Shefford, a small rural town located in Quebec (Canada). She holds a certificate in visual arts, a bachelor’s degree in environmental design from the Université du Québec à Montréal and a diploma from the École des beaux-arts de Montréal. Her work in visual arts has led her to participate in several international events, particularly in Europe and South America. She has several solo exhibitions to her credit. One of her main practices being land art, photography remains the only way to remember the many ephemeral installations that she has spread throughout her travels.
Maria Siorba
Greece
Maria Siorba (b. 1986) is a visual artist, currently living between London and Athens. With an educational background in Communication, Graphic design and Fine Arts and after a few years of painting and drawing, she chose photography as her main artistic medium, presenting her first photographic project in the Athens School of Fine Arts graduation show (2016). In her practice, she attaches great importance to aesthetics and exceptional atmospheres to express her thoughts around the subjects of modern communication, home, dreams and the significance of sensitivity and imagination as tools for understanding identity. Her projects have been presented in group shows such as the Athens Photo Festival 2020 Young Greek Photographers exhibition, the World Biennial of Student Photography 2017 in Novi Sad, Serbia, as a shortlisted participant, and the “Connection” 2021 group show by Color Tag magazine in New York.
Nicolas Hermann
France
Nicolas Hermann is a French, self-taught, visual artist based in Paris. In his artistic approach, he connects parallels between space and temporality, oscillating from microcosm to macrocosm, and transcribes the spiritual link of the individual to nature. Through both plastic and organic research, he mixes still and moving images, sound, and installation to propel the viewer into a cinematic experience. He turns his long-term projects into books, to crystallize his creative process.
Nikos Staikoglou
Greece
Nikos Staikoglou (b. 1993, Drama, Greece) studied Medicine in Thessaloniki with a specialization in clinical imaging. Since 2018, he has been a member of the Stereosis School of Photography. He has participated in several group exhibitions and attended creative photography and graphic design workshops. He is mainly interested in contemporary landscape and architectural photography, with references to the new topographics movement. Some of his projects have been published in self-edited photozines.
Shulan Wang
China
Shulan Wang is a Chinese photographer, based in Paris, France. She is mainly engaged in black and white art photography, thinking about how to find eternal existence in the poetic chaos from naturalistic materials. Her works cover landscapes, animals, portraits, still life, etc. Before starting photography, she mainly did architecture and interior design for couples of years, which built her basic artistic aesthetic orientation and philosophical guidance. She focuses on the questions of mind and consciousness, and advocates to balance the relationship between human and nature, opposes blindly pure commercial photography and indifferent objective description. Simple and natural objects are the subjects she likes to explore and capture. She believes people start from nature and finally end in nature, and in nature, people will finally find where they belong. Nature, is also the infinity leading to art. In her visual language, she adds her poetic fantasy to her works. Her work is mysterious and dreamy, and at the same times, very personal and emotional. In addition to combining studio work with documentary, she also studies different photosensitive materials for camera-less photography.
Todd Rigos
Greece
Todd Rigos (b.1987) is a contemporary photographer from Athens, Greece, whose work explores notions of intimacy, identity, and human interaction. Through curiosity, observation and presence, he seeks to witness and document patterns between people, nature, the things we consume and the milieus in which we live. He started developing his personal work in 2009 and his self-taught skills extend across digital and analogue photography. Since then, he has been recognized with several awards and has exhibited in numerous group shows in Athens and across Greece. In 2019, he attended the Documentary, Photo Journalism & Studio program at Spéos International Photographic Institute & Magnum Photos in Paris, France. Upon graduation, he focused on the humanitarian field, documenting the lives of refugees, and trying to bring about action and make a difference in the world.
Valentine de Villemeur
France
I am a French photographer based in Milan, Italy. I use analogue methods to photograph scenes from daily life. My work focuses on people and how they interact with their surroundings. Since I am working with film, it felt very natural for me to start and print my own work in the darkroom and enjoy the whole process from beginning to end.
Yiouli Tsatsopoulou
Greece
Yiouli Tsatsopoulou was born and raised in Athens. She studied photography at the University of West Attica. The main axis in her work has been for several years the self-portrait and the experiential space that surrounds it. Her ongoing experimentation with various media (video, music production) contributed to develop her artistic identity. Additionally, she is interested in experimenting with the representation of motion in the static picture. Since 2009, she has participated in many group exhibitions. She also works as a jewellery photographer and collaborates with numerous Greek designers.
Younes Mohammad
Iraq
Younes Mohammad was born in 1968 in Dohuk, Iraq. He’s a Kurdish freelance photographer mostly active on assignments for newspapers, magazines, etc. He spent his life in Iran as a refugee from 1974 to 1998 and graduated with an MBA from the University of Tehran. Photography was his passion but he had no chance to follow it while the war situation was still continuing during Saddam’s time. In 2011, he quitted his job and started his journey as a photographer. His work has been exhibited internationally and published widely.