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Exhibition at the Chania International Photo festival (22-26 July 2024)

Exhibition: B&W Athens Photography 2024

Jazz at Thessaloniki

Portraits of jazz musicians at Oratos bar, Thessaloniki (15 November 2023)

  • James Wylie (sax),

  • Kosmas Stefanidis (quitar)

  • Giannis Papatriantafillou (bass)

  • Giorgos Klountzos-Chrysidis (drums).

The AghaRTA Jazz Band

The AghaRTA Band, AghaRTA Jazz Centrum, Prague.

  • Ondřej Kabrna – piano and keyboards

  • Adam Tvrdý – electric guitar

  • Vít Švec – acoustic bass

  • Michal Hejna – drums, band leader

Parkbrug in Antwerp

Parkbrug in Antwerp, a bridge through which one enters the city.

Honorary mention in Still Life photography contest

Happy to announce that one of my mushroom photos received an honorary mention in the 1st Still Life photography contest of the Hellenic Photographic Society.

Two awards in the PX3 competition

My portfolio on the "Bizarre portraits of food" won two Bronze awards in PX3, the international photography competition. The awards were in the categories "Fine Art/Still life" and "Advertising/Food".

Check it out at: https://px3.fr/winners/px3/2020/11307

The Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) is a photography award that strives to promote photography and to discover emerging talent from around the world.

This portfolio is an experiment to try and see everyday ordinary items with a fresh eye. It focuses on the most familiar items around the house: food. Apples, mushrooms, tomatoes, broccoli, pepper and walnuts are the models. The characteristics of these small, mundane and unexciting objects of everyday life are overlooked or neglected. It was their undervalued visual attributes that attracted me. My goal was to create images that look as if these items are of another world, exotic, bizarre and unexpected. The portfolio was developed during the COVID19 lockdown in March and April 2020.

Publication at Dodho magazine

Happy that my project "Bizarre portraits of food" (which I did during the lockdown due to Covid-19) was published by Dodho, the international photography magazine.

This portfolio is an experiment to try and see everyday ordinary items with a fresh eye. It focuses on the most familiar items around the house: food.

Apples, mushrooms, broccoli, almonds, pepper, pistachio and walnuts are the models.

Sometimes the characteristics of these small, mundane and unexciting objects of everyday life are overlooked or neglected. It was their undervalued and overlooked visual attributes that attracted me.

My goal was to create images that look as if these items are of another world, exotic, bizarre and unexpected.

This series strives to form unusual portraits of ordinary items and is an effort to highlight their peculiar shapes and structures.

Honorable Award in the 5th Fine Art Photography Awards

Happy to announce that my series “Silky Seascapes" received an Honorable Mention in the 5th Fine Art Photography Awards.

Fine Art Photography Awards is one of the largest award giving bodies for a community of artists ushering an era of new trends in the world of photography. Fine Art Photography Awards conducts an annual competition for Professional and Amateur photographers. FAPA mission is to celebrate Fine Art photography and to discover emerging talent from around the world.

In 2018 Fine Art Photography Awards got around 4100 entries from 87 countries around the world.

The winners were slected by a panel of international judges, including Matan Katz, Reiko Wakai, Al Mefer, Janelia Mould, Ludwig Favre, Moe Najati, Hilary O'Leary, Mahnoor Malik, Lénaic Sanz, Mariann Fercsik, Kirill Ovchinnikov and Mira Nedyalkova.

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Published in the Black & White Spider Awards Winners Book 2019

Delighted to announce that as a winner at the 13th Black & White Spider Awards my image of the thinking chimpanzee has been published in the Winners Book 2019.

Produced to promote your achievement at the awards, the Winners Book is a sourcebook of photography talent that allows creatives to connect directly when looking to source talent for their projects.

The book is available here, while my image is here.

Honorable Mention in the 13th Black & White Spider Awards

Happy to announce that the “Portrait of a Chimpanzee", an image from my “Animal Kingdom” series received an Honorable Mention in the 13th International Black and White Spider Awards.

This year the Spider Awards received 6,404 entries from 77 countries, while the jury included the industry's biggest names such as Penguin Random House, London; Harper's Bazaar, UK; Victoria Film Festival, Canada; Silvan Faessler Fine Art, Zurich; Time Inc., London; and Fratelli Alinari Photography Museum in Florence.

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Exhibition at Blank Wall Gallery (4-16 Jan 2019)

Excited to announce that three of my recent images will be exhibited in the “Black & White” photography exhibition at Blank Wall Gallery from the 4th to 16th January 2019. 

My images will have excellent company: they will be exhibited among the work of many artists from around the world, like the Japanese photographer Naoki Fujihara who was Architecture Photographer of the Year on IPA 2018, the South African photo artist August Naude, the street photographer Michael Melachrinidis, and last but not least, my favourite minimalist artist Theodore Kefalopoulos.

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Silver Award in the PX3 Photography Awards 2018

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My project "Chimpanzee portraits" won the Silver Award in the "nature-Wildlife" category of the International Prix de la Photographie Paris (Px3) contest.

The Paris Photography Prize (PX3) was founded in 2007, and has since become one of the most prestigious photography awards.

The winning photographs will be presented in an exhibition in Paris at the Espace Beaurepaire (28 rue beaurepaire, Paris) from Tuesday, 10th July to Saturday, 14th July, 2018; see also the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/379199022566317

"Gardens of Versailles" published at Dodho magazine

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Excited to announce that my work on the Gardens of Versailles was published by Dodho Magazine. 

Dodho.com is an international photography magazine launched in 2013 and currently has more than 750.000 annual hits and 1.600.000 pages views.

Dodho Magazine features the best of contemporary photography, bringing together diverse bodies of work by established and emerging artists from around the globe.

Have a look at my Versailles gallery over at dodho.com: https://www.dodho.com/serenity-gardens-versailles-gregoris-mentzas/

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