{"id":1978,"date":"2009-11-25T02:23:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T02:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2009-11-25T02:23:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T02:23:37","slug":"the-athens-photo-festival-photo-folio-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/the-athens-photo-festival-photo-folio-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Athens Photo Festival Folio Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/olga_stefatou_06escapism_Burma.jpg?w=1200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\u00a9 Olga Stefatou\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/><em>Burma<\/em> series \u00a9 Olga Stefatou<\/p>\n<p>The Athens Photo Festival\u2019s Photo Folio Review \u201cis the best way for a photographer from Greece to expose themselves to an international audience without even having to leave the country\u201d says Athena Chroni, a photographer who is part of the travelling Faces to Faces show included in the event\u2019s main exhibition space &#8211; a surprise final entry into my own schedule as guest critic. It makes sense; for many, this was not only a chance to have people look at their work and comment on it, it was also a platform to show their work and maybe even make a connection or two.<\/p>\n<p>On a macro scale the review was also a chance for visiting specialists in the field of photography from as far afield as Finland, the UK, and France to see a side to Athens they hadn\u2019t seen before. The influences of street photography in the tradition of Cartier-Bresson, Koudelka, Frank, Winogrand and Ruscha were obvious. For many of the photographers, this tradition weighed heavily on their work, giving gravitas to analogue, black and white prints of the city and its surroundings, as well as the every day reality of those who live within it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/vgeor.24.jpg?w=1200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\u00a9 Vagelis Georgas\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>from<em> Urban Tales<\/em> \u00a9 Vagelis Georgas<\/p>\n<p>Vagelis Georgas, a young award-winning photographer, has created a style that is so steadfastly of the \u2018decisive moment\u2019, it\u2019s as if Bresson never left the building. A keen interest in sociology and social conceptions in art and photography lends itself to the tight concepts behind each of his series such as Urban Tales which takes the viewer on a journey into the heart of an abstract city through the moody, grainy lens of a 35mm Nikon. Strong contrasts highlight aspects of the composition, with arms intertwined, or a profile emerging from a building\u2019s shadow magnified by strong contrasts in black and white. \u201cI purposely remove any element that might reveal exactly where the image was taken,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s about isolating the subject.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>For Dimitris Kioseoglou, the influence of street photography is much simpler. \u201cI take pictures of my life,\u201d he says modestly. \u201cOf course I am influenced by the street photographers, but I am also interested by thousands of other photographers, too.\u201d An unassuming man with a day job unrelated to his passion, he notes, \u201cphotos exist everywhere &#8211; there just isn\u2019t enough time.\u201d In response, Kioseoglou takes his Minox 35mm camera loaded with 400ASA film everywhere he goes and develops the film in his own darkroom. The results are an ephemeral portrait of a life being lived, that drew the attention of nearby critics, Fiore Pinna and Chiara Capodici \u2013 curators of the 3\/3 Organisation, Italy. For such a humble man, his photographs betray a dynamic eye for composition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/kioseoglou-11.jpg?w=1200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\u00a9 Dimitris Kioseoglou\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\u00a9 Dimitris Kioseoglou<\/p>\n<p>Balancing work with photography is something Sotiris Papanikolaou knows well, but for him, it is the separation of his commercial practice from his artistic one. \u201cI own my own studio, work in advertising and do portraits of businessmen,\u201d he reveals in a straightforward manner that translates into his series, The Worker\u2019s Portrait of the 21st Century.\u00a0 Thes series depicts workers, from those building the new metro system to ship workers, pimps, and prostitutes, placed alongside businessmen and the Ludovics. \u201cThe French Royal Family is there as a reminder of the French Revolution \u2013 the first one fought for human rights,\u201d he says. \u201cWe have forgotten what revolutions were fought for.\u201d Using digital equipment, the portraits are black and white \u2013 reminiscent of the way colour distinguished commercial from art photography in the 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s. The colour choice also adds a sense of uniform equality to his diverse group of subjects.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/S.%20PAPANIKOLAOU_3.jpg?w=1200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\u00a9 Sotiris Papanikolaou\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/> from <em>The Worker&#8217;s Portrait of the 21st Century<\/em><br \/>\u00a9 Sotiris Papanikolaou<\/p>\n<p>Maxime Gyselinck, a Belgian photo-reporter working for Amnesty International shares Papanikolaou\u2019s concern for human rights. \u201cI suppose I have a connection with immigrants and their experience &#8211; my mother came to Belgium as an immigrant from Yugoslavia,\u201d he reasons. He used a Canon EOS 5D Mark II for Unfame Stories, a series of immigrant portraits that present those living the problem of immigration that escalated in 2003.\u00a0 In that year Greece signed the Dublin II declaration stating the first EU country an asylum seeker arrives in has the responsibility to process the application, effectively turning Greece into a final destination rather than transit point. Gyselinck uses the aesthetics of passport photography to force the viewer to look into the faces of the hundreds of people flooding the streets in the city centre daily, and the connection between photographer and subject is clear \u2013 they are unafraid of his lens.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/gyselinck_unfame.jpg?w=1200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\u00a9 Maxime Gyselinck\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>from <em>Unfame Stories<\/em> \u00a9 Maxime Gyselinck<\/p>\n<p>A similar connection is evident in the work of freelance photo-reporter, Olga Stefatou. With the daring approach of a street photographer, the compositional skill of a master painter, combined with a palpable sensitivity to the plight of those living in difficult circumstances, she has spent five years journeying independently through terrain both physically and metaphorically challenging, including Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Ethiopia, Cuba, China, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Her Burma series, she says, \u201care a look at how people living in hard conditions try to keep hold of their humanity,\u201d a humanity that bursts from every colour shot her Leica 35mm camera captured. Considering photographers are not allowed in Burma, she claims the experience taught her how to be fast and invisible. \u201cI could not say I was a photographer, because if I did, I would also put the people in my photos in danger.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/olga_stefatou_06sing.jpg?w=1200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\u00a9 Olga Stefatou\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\u00a9 Olga Stefatou<\/p>\n<p>John Voulgarakis, a teacher of basic photography who cultivated his craft in New York, takes his Holga lens away from people and focuses it on the details. A series of Lomo images framed by a Polaroid border depict items, objects, cracks and colours of the urban jungle, though his black and white series of a factory in Athens are more successful. With a talent for isolating shapes and textures, heightened by his understanding of light and its affect on the spectrum that separates black and white, Voulgarakis presents a symphony of greyscale, with all shades and tones crammed into a single frame. Interesting composition allows for some photographs to be viewed as abstract, while the focus on certain objects by others create invisible narratives that are whispered in the empty, abandoned space Voulgarakis has managed to communicate in images where time stands still. <\/p>\n<p>Two young photographers who practice alongside their studies in Fine Art and European Culture respectively are Angelos Krallis and Angelos Kaltsis \u2013 less advanced and developed as those mentioned above, yet with enough promise to see them developing their work further. Kaltsis is much more interested in colour and the reflection of space and memory that hangs over vast landscapes and urban scenes, in which human presence is implied, rather than expressed overtly. Krallis, on the other hand, is an old school follower of black and white snap decisions and observations with a hope to combine his photography with his Fine Art education. Passionate to the core, the two young men represent a bright, young generation developing their style and their concept as we speak. <\/p>\n<p>After two days of meeting these incredibly dedicated people, it seems photography in Greece is alive and well. Let\u2019s see what next year will bring \u2013 365 days can produce a lot of pictures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Stephanie Bailey<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hcp.gr\" target=\"_blank\">www.hcp.gr<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>Stephanie Bailey encounters a strong street photography influence in current work at the Athens Photography Festival Photo Folio Review.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[19],"tags":[1034,46,1051,1052,1053,886],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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