Under Pressure is shortlisted of the Dummy Award 2025 and I am extremely happy about it!!! 50 out of 395 photobook dummies have been selected to travel around the world! Hoping the book finds its way to the press soon📚

The book reflects on the geopolitics of ecology today following the history of oil and gas in Albania and Greece through contemporary photography, archival material and text. Structured as a drama/play (with acts instead of chapters), it also reflects on issues that arise when dealing with the representation of facts and history. Under Pressure concludes with a conversation with David Campany around the particular nature of this work, the experimental nature of the photobook as a medium itself and the current challenges and state of photojournalism/documentary. 

Many thanks to the The Photobook Museum for organizing the Dummy Award ‘25, as well as to the members of the jury Melanie Mues (UK), Amandine Marchand (CH), Frederic Lezmi (DE), Lucia Halder (DE), Luis Weinstein (DE), Matthieu Nicol (FR), Ufuk Sahin (TR), Yvonne De Rosa (IT).

Very happy to participate in the updated version of the international photography exhibition Climate Wars: We Can’t Breathe organised by MedPhoto Festival at EIGHT / ΤΟ ΟΧΤΩ - Laboratory for Arts and Politics (8 Polytechneiou str.) in Athens, Greece. 

The exhibition puts into dialogue photographic series, documentaries, books, and research, that illuminate the dialectics between social and natural ecosystems. Through the selection of the participating works, MedPhoto proposes perspectives that stand critically against the Cartesian view that treats nature as a sphere distinct from civilisation, and that consequently tends to represent it as an objectified landscape (a view historically intertwined with the colonial gaze). At the same time, it continues to outline artistic practices that highlight the contradictions underlying the field of representation, while activating our potential to imagine a different and sustainable future for all. Read more

Participating artists: Forensic Architecture, Ursula Biemann, Sophie Gerrard, Andreas Meladakis, Cristina de Middel & Bruno Morais, Giorgos Moutafis, Oliver Ressler, Penelope Thomaidi

Photobooks by: Makeda Best, Matt Dunne, Mitch Epstein, Stuart Franklin, Fazal Sheikh

Curated by: Dimitris Kechris, Pasqua Vorgia

Visit: 4.04-11.05.2025 (Open Thur.-Sat. 17:00-20:00 - except Easter Weekend)

Under Pressure appeared recently in a double spread in the Forum of Camera Austria International #168. Couldn’t be more grateful for the honour! CAI has been providing its readers with insights into important discourses on the role of photography as a medium and practice of contemporary art since 1980.

My sincere thanks to editors Christina Töpfer and June Drevet for taking such great care of the works, the photographers and your readers.

It is an honour to participate in this exhibition-production by MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography under the title HerStories. Photographic practices, 1974-2024 seeks to showcase the domestic photographic production of women, from the 1970s onwards. The exhibition will be hosted in the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography and the Experimental Center for the Arts of MOMus, from 17 May until 15 September 2024; forty artists and photographers, four curators and eight researchers contribute in mapping this particular field of endeavor for the first time in Greece. More

Participating photographers-artists: Aimilia Balaska; Christina Calbari; Lizzie Calligas; Catherine Chatzidimitriou; Athina Chroni; Lydia Dambassina; Maria Dara; Christina Dimitriadis; Marilia Fotopoulou; Louisa Gouliamaki; Athena Kazolea; Katerina Kalogeraki; Katerina Kaloudi; Olga Kaloussi; Maria Klonaris-Katerina Thomadaki; Eleni Maligoura; Natassa Markidou; Georgia Matsamaki; Maria Mavropoulou; Despina Meimaroglou; Eleni Mouzakiti; Eleni Mylonas; Lia Nalbantidou; Chryssa Nikoleri; Effie Paleologou; Rea Papadopoulou; Myrto Papadopoulos; Maria Paschalidou; Roula Patra; Paola Revenioti; Fany Sarri; Angela Svoronou; Maria Stefossi; Danae Stratou; Penelope Thomaidi; Niki Typaldou; Christina Vazou; Irini Vourloumis; Nayia Yiakoumaki; Nikoletta Zissi.

Exhibition curated by/Publication edited by: Iro Katsaridou, Areti Leopoulou, Alexandra Moschovi, Penelope Petsini

From January 19th → March 29th, 2024, Under Pressure will be on show at MedPhoto Festival 5 in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Rethymno. 

MedPhoto Festival firmly oriented towards critical issues of our time, organises its next event, under the title CRITICAL ARCHIVES VI: We Can’t Breathe, at the Contemporary Art Museum of Crete, focusing on the climate crisis and the social and political conditions that contextualise it. Overall, one cannot but look at the extreme and dangerous ways of exploiting natural resources leading to the widespread destruction of ecosystems. Yet, various contemporary artistic practices (encountered with theory and research) make an attempt to delve deeper into the meaning of ecocide and the importance of climate justice, highlighting that not all people are equally responsible for the climate crisis, as well as pointing to the dominant mechanisms of energy financialisation and greenwashing related to the disproportionate suffering that falls on countries of the Global South. More. 

Participating artists: Ursula Biemann, Evangelos Daskalakis, Sophie Gerrard, Petros Giannakouris, Marina Gioti, Kostas Kapsianis, Nikos Markou, Cristina De Middel & Bruno Morais, Giorgos Moutafis, Oliver Ressler, Zied Ben Romdhane, Jonas Staal, Ian Teh, Penelope Thomaidi, Michailangelos Vlassis Ziakas

Autumn couldn’t have started in a better way! Photography Between Exhibition and Publication has been an exciting, intense and inspiring workshop lead by curator, writer, editor and educator David Campany at the beautiful space of Palm Tree Workshops in Santorini. 5 days of lectures, enriching conversations, thinking and rethinking on one’s photographic practice and diving into photobooks and the possibilities of showing work on 2dimensional and 3dimensional contexts. Extra thanks to David for being so generous sharing his knowledge, to Marilena and Stella for their hospitality and to wonderful co-participants Penelope Hunt, Shaista Chishty, Hilary Wardhaugh, Francesca Giaitzoglou for this great experience! 

Following an invitation by Vovousa Festival and with the support of MedINA - Mediterranean Institute for Nature and Anthropos, early June, along with documentary author Natasha Blatsiou we set out on a road trip to explore the geography, environment, history and culture of Aoos and Sarantaporos rivers, two of the few free-flowing bodies of water remaining in Europe. We did this through experimentation with photography and sound. We are deeply thankful to the many residents and scientists that helped us through the process. The first result of this in-progress research lead to Alongside the River, a multimedia exhibition curated by Vangelis Ioakimeidis and presented at the Hydropower Museum of Vovousa on the Pindos mountains in north western Greece during July and August. More information here.

Last spring, I had the opportunity to show Under Pressure at Fesitval Cirulation(s) at Le 104, Paris. It was an honour and such a great experience! Many thanks to Collectif Fetart for the incredible organisation and for creating multiple opportunities for all the 27 emerging photographers participants! More installation views here.

I am thrilled to announce that Under Pressure will be presented at Festival Circulation(s) 2023 in Paris along with the work of another 26 artists from all around Europe! Emerging photographers of 14 nationalities will tell stories with images around migration, youth, nature, trauma, identity and science. Discover here more about Festival Circulation(s) and the participating artists in the 2023 edition. 

25 March - 21 May 2023
Le CENTQUATRE-PARIS
5 Rue Curial, 75019 Paris, France

Many thanks to the artistic committee of Collectif Fetart: Marie Guillemin, Clara Chalou, Mano Bourcart, Delphine Rodet, Carine Dolek, Jimmy Pihet, Laetitia Guillemin, Claire Pathé, Emmanuelle Halkin

Sharing happy news from another continent!! One of my pictures from the series A Zone to Defend got selected as a semi-finalist at the Head On Landscape Awards. The semi-finalist images will be projected on a screen throughout the Festival that this year presents 604 artists in multiple venues, launches in Sydney, Australia on November 4th, 2022. Winners will be announced at the opening!

This image is actually created by multiple shots of the beautiful 100 Noms dwelling before and after it’s destruction during the evictions that took place in the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes in April 2018. Some of the dreamy dwellings disappeared in the process, but nature won and the struggle of locals and activists that created a living utopia in West France remains an actual lighthouse of hope in our dark times.