Athens Photo World, the annual photojournalism festival of Athens, returns for the 6th year in 2024, under the auspices of A.E. of the President of the Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou
Athens Photo World makes a dynamic return to the capital, with a rich program and the main protagonist always, photography.
For the 6th year, it organizes events, with the aim of highlighting the contemporary photojournalism and its protagonists as well as their contribution to shaping the image of the world and its history, at the time this is being written.
This year’s Athens Photo World returns to the city center with two outdoor exhibitionsthe competition for the Prize Athens Photo World and a two-day with Digital Projectionspresenting photojournalism stories by contemporary Greek and foreign photographers and current issues.
Through his exhibitions and actions Athens PhotoWorld has already achieved a new public contact with modern photojournalism and photography.
Tens of thousands of people have visited or watched, from 2019 until today, the photography exhibitions, talks, presentations, digital screenings in emblematic and busy places of the city in the context
of Athens Photo World.
In the summer of 2024, they will be presented to the public:
- Two outdoor Exhibitions in the center of Athens
“Snapshots of the Olympic Games”. Outdoor photographic exhibition at the National Garden Fence
- Outdoor photographic exhibition at the Fence of the National Garden, from the side of Vasilissis Sofias Avenue and Amalias Avenue.
This year, the fifth year of Athens Photo World’s cooperation with the National Garden, an open-air photography exhibition is presented in its enclosure, with the theme “Olympic Games”, dedicated to the last three Olympiads.
The photographers of the International News Agency Associated Press captured – at the Olympics, London in 2012, Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and Tokyo in 2021 (Olympiad 2020) – the athletes in some of the most magnificent moments, for themselves, for their teams and countries, for the sports.
Through the 48 images of the exhibition, the soul of the most important sports venue in the world: the Olympic Games, is revived in the city center.
At the same time that in Paris many of the depicted athletes, along with many others, young and talented, will (re)live the intensity, joy and noble rivalry symbolized by the Olympic Games, the top sports
fact of the world. Among the protagonists of this exhibition, Lefteris Petrounias, Katerina Stefanidis, Miltos Tendoglou, the national polo team and the national synchronized swimming team.
The exhibition will last from Friday, July 19 until Sunday
September 1, 2024.
- “Mountainous Greece”: Outdoor photographic exhibition in the Enclosure of the Athens Concert Hall.
Deep green, warm brown, with orange accents, and the cool blue of the mountain waters under the blue Mediterranean sky. A Greece different from the seascape with which we usually associate it, rich in colors, scents, life and routes. The photographers of the exhibition invite us to follow them on uneven paths in central and western Greece, through the impressive rocky masses of Meteora, the mythical Dragon Lakes and Arenas, through passes and canyons such as Aoos and Baros, the valleys of Asopos and Valia Kalda to finally touch the peaks, from Pindos to the abode of the Gods on Olympus. Through the eyes of Penelope Thomaidis we see impressive volumes and shapes, while Giorgos Tsafos reveals to us her colors
mountainous Greece.
At the same time, the shots of Sakis Youbasis wink at the fans of fantastic stories and Dimitris Tosidis, a mountaineer himself, takes us closer and closer to the sky and for a moment we may envy the lonely mountaineer who reaches the Beautiful Ridge/Giusel Tepe.
The exhibition will last from Friday 5 July until Sunday 1 September 2024.
Competition for the Athens Photo World Award 2024
The established competition is organized for the sixth consecutive year (starting in 2019) with free participation for interested photographers, now becoming an institution in the field of photography.
This year the competition and the Award are held with the support of the Ministry of Culture and PPC.
PPC, a clean energy company in Southeast Europe, recognizes the importance of culture as a catalyst for
social and intellectual development and supports initiatives that promote artistic creation and cultural exchange. It is addressed, as always, to professional photographers who live and work in Greece and / or Cyprus.
Athens Photo World will award a total of €5,000 this year to three completed or developing documentary photography or photojournalism projects as follows:
- First Prize: €3,000,
- Second Prize: €1,500,
- Third Prize Five hundred euros €500
With the APW Awards the festival contributes in its own way to encouraging and enhancing the work of photographers and their ability to continue committed to their work and their vision.
The evaluation jury rotates every year. For 2024, the committee is staffed by photographers Michalis Karagiannis, Pepi Loulakaki and Orestis Panagiotou. The start of submission of entries will be Sunday, September 1st and end on Sunday, December 1st, 2024.
The finalists of the competition will be announced on Sunday, January 19, 2025 at an event that will take place at the Miltiadis Evert amphitheater, in the Technopolis of the Municipality of Athens.
Participation in the competition for the Athens Photo World Award is free.
The winners of the Athens Photo World Award of the past years are:
2019: Yannis Antonopoulos / Southeast of Eden
2020: Dimitris Michalakis / 42 Days
2021: Dimitris Tosidis / Diava, nomadic pastoralism in the mountainous North
Hellas
2022: Michalis Patsouras / Still Human
2023: Antonis Pasvantis / Last Community
Source :Skai
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