Festival
Athens Photo Festival 2012
© Max Pam
© Nicola Lo Calzo
© Stephen Dupont
© Anders Petersen
© Stefano De Luigi
© Namsa Leuba
© Shen Wei
© Ester Vonplon
China Bureau 9 - China, bureaucracy, © Jan Banning, 2007. Wang Ning (b. 1983) works in the Economic Affairs office in Gu Lou community, Yanzhou city, Shandong province. She provides economic assistance to enterprises in her region and is the liaison officer between the government and local enterprises: she helps them get a permit for land use, personnel insurances, environmental permits and taxation registration. There was (at the time) no heating in the room. The maps show regional industrial zones. Wang Ning is not married. She lives at home with her parents. She works from 8.30 to 12 am and from 14 to 16 am. She has no official paid holidays, except the national bank holidays and the weekends. Monthly salary: 2,100 renminbi ($ 260, euro 228).
© Eran Gilat
Gypsy interiors © Carlo Gianferro
© Angelos Tzortzinis
© Aris Messinis
© Myrto Papadopoulos
© Louisa Gouliamaki
© Vangelis Georgas
© Max Pam
Last week, the 25th edition of the Athens Photo Festival opened its doors. Organized by the Hellenic Centre for Photography and directed by Manolis Moresopoulos , the festival offers a varied program, combining internationally renowned photographers, while leaving space to the younger generation.
The theme of this year is “Art/Doc intersection”. Photography will be on display in Athens, with more than twenty exhibitions in Technopolis, with satellite exhibitions.
Between art and documentary, it is sometimes difficult to make the distinctions between staged images and documentary reality. Yet each pictures have testimony values with examples like Jan Banning’s series on offices or Carlo Gianferro’s Gypsy interiors. The photographer Gicacomo Brunelli introduces us to common animals, with an another point of view; Nigel Bennet, shows us images from Bankgok and Monika Merva uses her entourage in her work. Christian Vium realized a series on clandestines and Eran Gilat still life. Anders Petersen combines fiction and autobiography. But in this critical time, the Athens Photo Festival dedicated an exhibiion to the Greek reality as well.
Juliette Deschodt
APhF:12 - Athens Photo Festival 2012
October 19 – November 5, 2012
Technopolis of the city of Athens
Athens, Greece
Links
http://photofestival.gr/
http://hcp.gr/
Contributors
Juliette Deschodt