The Athens Photo Festival had drawn up a dynamic program, in order to create a broad-ranging platform for artistic expression, so as to inform the general public and generate more active participation in the festival.
Mediterranean Photography
A screening show on Mediterranean Photography
39 photographers from 13 Mediterranean countries (Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey)
Curators:Stavros Moresopoulos and Marina Coriolano-Lykourezos
With the support of Sony
Dolores Marat (FR), Orient, parcours en Egypte, Syrie et le désert
With the collaboration of the Institut Français d’ Athènes
Thu 20/11 – Sun 14/12
Bath House of the Winds
International Colloquium on Mediterranean Photography
Collaboration: Institut Français d’ Athènes
The purpose of this international congress is to investigate the main theme of this year’s festival as to create a platform for exporting and exchanging cultural work within the Mediterranean basin. Renowned figures from the field, including art directors, curators, artists, critics, sociologists and historians will develop their views, in order to provide a multifaceted approach to the topic.
Participants: William Ewing, director, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; Marcel Fortini, director Centre Mediteranneen de la Photographie, Bastia, Corsica; Tina Schelhorn, director, Gallery Lichtblick, Berlin, Germany; Antje Weitzel, curator, Cairoscape exhibition, Berlin, Germany; and photographers: George Georgiou, Hermann Huber, Dolores Marat, Payram, Vanessa Winship, Yorgos Katsangelos.
Photo Folio Review 08
Support: Epson
Photo folio review were organised for the fi rst time in Greece by the Hellenic Centre for Photography, and function as a meeting point between artists and photography experts. Festival organisers, publishers of photography journals, curators, photographers and art theorists, with many years of experience in the fi eld
of photography and culture in general, will observe work by certain photographers, discuss and critique their work.
Athens Photo Inspiration 08 by Nestea
Organised by the Hellenic Centre for Photography
Athens Photo Inspiration 08 will take place on Sunday 2 November 2008 and it is addressed to all those who feel young and dynamic, and use photography as a means of expression and inspiration. It is an original action, open to the public, with characteristics of a contest . Its main purpose is to support both individual and collective artistic expression through photography. The audience will have the opportunity to take part in a photography “marathon” in the heart of Athens, during which it will approach, through its own lenses, a series of subjects. The prerequisite for participation is mainly inspiration and desire for creativity and not so much the technical knowledge of the photographic fi eld. The ultimate goal of this event is to be repeated on a yearly basis and become a meeting point for all photography lovers.
Lectures
Well known photographers will present their oeuvre through a series of lectures, as well as their views on photography. They will project a series of their works on to a big screen and proceed to analyse and discuss these with the audience:
Tod Papageorge (US), His artwork, and infuences in his photographic. Coorganisation: Xippas Gallery, Hellenic Centre for Photography
Vassi Koutsaftis (US), Nomads and monks, Organisation: Hellenic American Union
Fotis Kaggelaris (GR), About images and other demons
Workshop: Preparing a Portfolio
Lectures: Yorgos Depollas, Costis Antoniadis, Maria Matta
Support: Epson
In association with Photo Folio Review will run an educational programme on Portfolio Preparation aimed at photographers, artists and anyone else wishing to get involved in the design process and the development of their own work.
Educational programme for children “My Mediterranean”
Program coordinator: Maria Kokorotskou
An experiencial educational programme will be run by specialised motivators aiming to bring the participants in touch with aspects of the photographic medium and with the visual culture in general. It is an artistic practice, an experimentation in contemporary media through personal and collective modes of expression. The participants, in a brief photographic stroll in the Plaka area, will try to express through symbolism the image of a contemporary Athens as a Mediterranean city. The photographic outcome will be the basis for an artistic composition with the use of colours and various materials.
Photo Competition: Glances at the city of Athens
The Hellenic Centre for Photography in co-operation with Fnac organised a photographic competition themed «Glances at the city» aiming at encouraging the artistic expression of the public. The participants are requested to present their personal view of life in Athens – hangouts, new neighbourhoods, inhabitants, everyday routines, passers-by – and anything related to the city. The best photographs will be presented to the public in a special exhibition at the Fnac Forum in Marousi, while the four best will receive a gift of digital photo cameras by Sony.
Conference: The creative photograph in archaeology
On the occassion of the exhibition «The creative photograph in archeology» which is presented in the frame of Athens Photo Festival 08, is organised an international conference which will be held in Benaki Museum, Annex Peiraios.
Organisation: Benaki Museum
Participants:Kevin Glowacki, Katherine Schwab, Hercules Papaioannou, Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Socratis Mavrommatis, Costis Antoniadis
Conference: Photography during the Spanish Civil War and
the European Resistance 1936-1945
On the occassion of Spyros Meletzis photographic exhibition titled «Resistance on the mountains 1942-1944» which is presented in Athens Photo Festival 08, the Modern Greek History Research Centre (Department of Political Science and History) of Panteion University organises a conference with the following subject: "Photography during the Spanish Civil War and the Europian Resistance 1936-1945". It will be an international meeting of University Professors and Researchers from United Kingdom, Yugoslavia, Greece, Italy and Spain.
The use, the transelation and the way of reading this particular type of photography regarding the time of Resistance in Yugoslavia, Greece, Italy and the period covering the Spanish Civil War are the main issues that this conference will be examining and deploying.
Οrganisers: Prokopis Papastratos, Nina Kassianou
Participants: Francisco Marco Viciano, Adolfo Mignemi, Markovic Pedrag, Nicolas
Sanchez-Dura, Heather Williams, Νina Κassianou, Prokopis Papastratis