I photograph to see what things look like photographed.
Garry Winogrand
Bio
I am a photographer and civil engineer who lives and works in Thessaloniki, Greece.
My artistic practice includes photography, photobooks, video, slideshows, field recordings and audio works and is rooted in long-term projects that emerge through walking, observing, scientific research and pausing. Photography, for me, is both a tool for understanding and a method of documentation. I focus on authenticity and the atmosphere of the real, creating images that reveal aspects of our world that often remain unseen. I believe that meaning and beauty reside on the everyday and the ordinary. That’s why I ‘ve been always looking for that in my most familiar places: my home, my neighborhood, the city I live in, my working environment.
I have been teaching creative photography at I.I.E.K. E.S.P. from March 2023 till June 2024.
Part of my works (photographs, books and audio works) belong to the collection of Momus-Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Momus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, the Centre Canadien d’ Architecture etc.
Education
Exhibitions/Screenings/Talks/Book presentations
(most important)
- “The Leftovers”, Group Exhibition, The Curated Fridge, Sommerville, Massachusetts, January-March 2025
- “The Photobook Exhibition” (curation) – VAiF (Visual Artists International Festival), Esp+ Gallery, Thessaloniki, November 2024
- “MUNDUS” solo exhibition – VAiF (Visual Artists International Festival), Bar Oratos, Thessaloniki, November 2024
- “Co-Capital” zine at Zoetrope stand – Polycopies, Paris, November 2024
- “Co-Capital” and “MUNDUS”- 3rd Pinakotheke Photo Book Fair, Pinakotheke, Thessaloniki, November 2024
- “Co-Capital” zine- signing at Zoetrope stand – Athens Art Book Fair, Athens, October 2024
- “Co-Capital” exhibition – E.S.P. Gallery, Thessaloniki, May 2024
- “MUNDUS” – 2nd Pinakotheke Photo Book Fair, Pinakotheke, Thessaloniki, December 2023
- “Another Day at the Office” – Sit+read artbook fair, Muzeul Corneliu Miklosi, Timisoara, Romania, October 2023
- “Talk about my photographic work”, Fotografiki Lesxi Livadias, Livadia, May 2023
- “Talk about my photographic work”, I.I.E.K. E.S.P., Thessaloniki, March 2023
- “Looking for the Light”, Group Exhibition, 14th Photometria Festival, I.I.E.K. E.S.P., Thessaloniki, February-March 2023
- “Down to Earth”, Group Exhibition, 8th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Museum Alex Mylona, Athens, February-April 2023
- “Looking for the Light”, Group Exhibition, 14th Photometria Festival, Melanithros Art Space, Athens, November-December 2022
- “Looking for the Light”, Group Exhibition, 14th Photometria Festival, Ioannina City Hall, Ioannina, September-October 2022
- “MUNDUS”, – The Photobook exhibition, Athens Photo Festival 2022, Benaki Museum, Athens, June-July 2022
- The ‘Soundscape of a Lockdown in 2:30 minutes” – “Public Domain”, group exhibition, Momus-Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, April-November 2022
- “Interiors” – Group Exhibition, ‘The Curated Fridge’, Spring 2022 Show, Boston, U.S.A.
- “MUNDUS” – ‘Inanimate dialogues / Let the things speak’, An open day book selection by Benni Ciappini, Zoetrope, Athens, March 2022
- “MUNDUS” – Thessaloniki Photobiennale 2021, Photobook Boom/The Greek Case, Group Exhibition curated by: Yorgos Yatromanolakis/Alexandra Saliba, Thessaloniki, October-December 2021
- “MUNDUS” – Athens Art Book Fair, Kypseli Municipal Market, Athens, September 2021
- “MUNDUS” – BFOTO, Emergentes Festival 2021, Solo Exhibition, Barbastro, Spain, August 2021
- “MUNDUS” – Radar Books, selected by Francesca Todde, Photo Book Fair, Radar Photo Festival, Trani, Italy, June 2021
- Together, so far so close – Screening of “The Soundscape of a Lockdown in 2:30 minutes”, Group Exhibition, Momus Experimental Center for the Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece, October 2020
- “To Pikap Community – Art in Thessaloniki 2018-2019”, Municipal Art Gallery of Thessaloniki (Casa Bianca), Thessaloniki, Greece, March 2020
- “The Print Swap” – Berlin Blue Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany, Group Exhibition, May 2018.
- “Der Mann” & “Ways to Worries”, Cities and memories. June 2018. https://citiesandmemory.com/sound-photography
- “Homes Sweet Homes” – Athens Photo Festival, Satellite Exhibitions, six d.o.g.s., Athens, Greece, Solo Exhibition, June 2016
- Biennale of Contemporary Art of Thessalonica, 5th Young Artists’ Workshop: Romance – Thessaloniki, Yeni Djami, Group Exhibition, September 2015
- “Homes Sweet Homes” – Tabya, Thessaloniki, Greece, Solo Exhibition, February 2015
- “Homes Sweet Homes” – 13th Kythera Photographic Encounters -Follow Your Art Gallery, Kythera, Greece, Solo Exhibition, September 2014
- “Homes Sweet Homes” – Young Greek Photographers Exhibition 2013 – Kythera, Greece, Group Exhibition, October 2013
- “Ephemeral +”, Depot Art View, Thessaloniki, Greece, Solo Exhibition, March 2012
- 25th Manifestation Internationale Video et Artes Numeriques, Videoformes
(“Videobank” section), screening of the video “Nea Krene – Venizelou”, Clermont-Ferrand, France, March 2010 - 11th International Panorama Of Independent Film And Video Makers, screening of the video “Nea Krene – Venizelou”, Patra, October 2009
- Young Greek Photographers Exhibition 2008 – Kythera, Greece, Group Exhibition, September 2008
- 10th International Panorama Of Independent Film And Video Makers, screening of the music and photography clip “LOCOMOTIVE BALKAN”, Patra, September 2008
- Second Cities Photo Project – Košice, Slovakia, Group Exhibition, November 2007
- Biennale of Contemporary Art of Thessalonica, PUBLIC SCREEN / Heterotopias
- 7 Photographic Stations – Thessaloniki, Group Exhibition, September 2007
Awards/Collections
- The Young Greek Photographers Award at 12th Kythera Photographic Encounters (2013)
- “The Soundscape of a Lockdown in2:30 minutes” is part of the collection of Momus-Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki.
- “Romance” which I exhibited at the context of the 5th Biennale of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, is also part of the collection of The State Museum of Contemporary Art.
- “MUNDUS” is part of the collection of Museo Universidad de Navarra, Centre Canadien d’ Architecture, Charles Seale-Hayne Library Plymouth University , Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Toronto Metropolitan University Library
Publications
- In Monocle ‘Greece’ handbook, February 2025
- In “VAiF” catalogue, p. 12-15, p.56-57, November 2024
- “Co-Capital”, collaborative book with Kostis Argiriadis, Zoetrope editions, May 2024
- “Αιώνια Θεσσαλονίκη / Eternal Thessaloniki”, p. , University Studio Press, December 2023
- “Thessaloniki Biennale 8: Geocultura”, p. 176, 177, February 2023
- “Looking for the Light”, Photometria Festival, 14th edition, September 2022.
- “MUNDUS”, BFOTO Festival Catalogue, p.5, 7, 23, September 2021.
- “MUNDUS”, self-published book, edition of 300, June 2021.
- In “Thessalonikewn Polis”, Vol. 74, p.54-59 December 2020.
- In “Luminous Eye Zine #03”, a bimonthly online zine by Luminous Eye, pages 30-53, September 2020.
- “Φοίνικας/Ένας περίπατος στην πόλη”/”Foinikas/A stroll in the city”, pages 14-21, edition of 500, University Studio Press, December 2019.
- “Σάσα”, self-published book, edition of 3, April 2017.
- “Homes Sweet Homes”, my first self-published book, edition of 150, August 2016.
- In the Athens Photo Festival catalogue, page 158, June 2016.
- In the 5th Biennale of Contemporary Art of Thessalonica catalogue, pages 202/203, 280/281, September 2015.
- In “Η ζωή πλαγίως”, Vol.4, a magazine about disability and being different, pages 24, 42, 63, 67, December 2014.
- In “wip”, Vol.16, the digital magazine of photography, p. 12, 13, 19, 28, 41, November 2014.
- In “Camera Obscura”, a 16-page section of the Thessaloniki based literary quarterly Entefktirio, dedicated to photography, Spring 2009
- In the book-cd of the movie :”Three Moments” of Petros Sevastikoglou, November 2008.
- In the Second Cities Photo Project catalogue, pages 9 & 29 November 2007.
