The project “Kafeneio” consists of portraits of the café owners and their customers since 1972. Kafeneio, an integral part of the Greek social structure in both urban area and countryside, is still maintaining its dynamic at present. […]
City of Athens is a non-narrative short film by filmmaker and award-winning photographer Alexandros Maragos, that pays homage to Greece’s capital, painting the portrait of a changing Metropolis. […]
Prespes is a region shared between two lakes, the « small » and the « large» one, and three countries, Greece, Albania and FYROM. An ottoman sultan loved these lakes so much that he gave his daughter their name. […]
Photographer Babis Kougemitros with the series Night Tales, attempts to suggest an interpretation of the night culture and a visual road map of the stories it veils. […]
This is a series of images that were made through a time span of three years. During the shooting period, there was no predetermined concept in mind. The resulted series is rather an extraction, the bits and pieces of a visual diary from days of summer on a Greek island. […]
But how many daydreams we should have to analyze under the simple heading of Doors! For the door is an entire cosmos of the Half-open. […]
‘Aperspectival’ is a photographic series by architect and photographer Pygmalion Karatzas, taking a more intimate look at urban landscapes, influenced by the visual vocabulary of the ‘new topographics’ movement and the metropolitan condition ‘terrain vague’ as defined by Ignasi de Sola-Morales. […]
The collection of works titled Alphabet aims to bring together Ellie Tsatsou’s first approaches to the language of photography. It is a compilation of early photographs, as seen years after they were shot, with the intention to discover and highlight the creative movement of one’s self; the awakenings, the travels, the angst, the joy, the expansion and the rituals it took to get an idea of what it means to be using photography as a medium of rooting and growing. […]
800 sheep, 12 dogs, 2 horses and a man begin the journey. Over the centuries, this time of year, in October, shepherds lead their flock from the cold mountains to the plain, so they can overwinter. […]
The photo documentary “Lupimaris” is dedicated to the history, stories and faces of Greek fishermen and their traditional colorful wooden boats. […]
‘My field of reference is “the street”; I neither seek extraordinary events, nor do I travel around in quest of a subject to photograph. […]
“Myths” is a series of photos by Dafni Melidou that document her daily life and experiences during the time she spent in Canada. […]
“‘Street View’ is a project by Andreas Kamoutsis that deals exclusively with the events taking place out there on the streets. Its routes vary, from lively urban channels in big cities to deserted walks somewhere in the countryside. […]
Living Postcards from Greece is a series of short videos that give life to traditional postcards, depicting the country’s mountains, urban landscapes, ancient monuments and sea. […]
Nothing can describe better my feelings while shooting urbanscapes than this favorite song of mine.
“It’s hard to believe
That there’s nobody out there […]
The images in Ioanna Chronopoulou’s ongoing project “Dichotomy” are rooted in their literal meaning. A division into two parts. A subdivision into halves or pairs. […]
‘Happy World’ is a series of images by Olga Stefatou linking the recent past of Myanmar to the present. It is a documentation of a country in transition, focusing on the local ethos and the painful journey to political change. […]
This series of photos by Georgios Makkas is made up by the facades of small businesses that, as a result of Greece entering its 6th year of recession, have been forced to close, with many more likely to follow. […]
“13 photos of abandonment” is a project by Giorgos Zontanos that documents an abandoned house in Thasos, taking us back in time to about half a century ago in Greece. […]
The tang of salt in the air. Sunlight sparkling on clear blue water. Pomegranate seeds glistening like jewels in your palm. […]
“In India worlds of different eras meet. The magic of a traditional world coexists with the positive spirit of the industrial world and the cynicism of the post-industrial world. […]
Cynthia Tzitzis is taking photos of her friends.
Mainly young people who came to the UK the last few years in search of a better future and left Greece behind, like she did. […]
Alexis Efstathopoulos is an archaeologist and photographer who uploads every Sunday on his Instagram account (alef79) one of his #sunday_visitors. […]
Have you ever had a lucid dream? Lucidity begins in the midst of a dream when becoming aware that you are dreaming and you can influence what happens. […]
“Defining Lines” is a photo project by Nikolas Ventourakis focused on the areas in and around the Sovereign Base Area of Akrotiri in Cyprus. […]
We try to control time and space..
We strive to be creators…
The awareness of those two situations combined, gives us a sense of immortality…
For a fraction of a second, we defy death and have a glimpse of eternity.. […]
Wor(th)ship is the photographic ‘fieldwork’ of Tassos Vrettos among the makeshift places of worship of migrants and refugees in and around Athens. […]
“The land of Thrace. My homeland, the historic land I grew up and still live comprises nowadays parts of three countries, Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey. […]
Over the past 12 months at The Greek Foundation, we’ve been trying to showcase some of the best projects related to Greek design, architecture, photography, the arts and cultural production in general. […]
“The American landscape is recognizable all over the Western world: As the enigmatic backdrop of thousands of Hollywood movies, it has travelled the globe, reaching the hearts of millions. […]