Books & Zines

ΓΙΑΝΝΟΥΛΗ (GIANNOULI)

[zine]

Edited by: Sophia Tolika & Ilias Pallas (Daltonism Studio)
Designed by: Ilias Pallas (Daltonism Studio)
Printed in Thessaloniki by: Kakiousis Digital Printing, April 2025
Softcover
14.5cm x 20.8cm, 44 pages
Edition of 20 (15 in Greek and 5 in English, numbered)
Print in Fedrigoni Materica 120g paper

‘Giannouli’ is a gesture of love and gratitude to the family who welcomed me into their home during Christmas of 2022, in the village of Giannouli, near the Evros border. The photographs, taken over the course of twenty-four hours, attempt to highlight the collective effort behind the preparation of the festive meal, the local customs expressed through regional meat traditions, the gathering of generations around the family table, the impromptu celebrations, and the warmth that arises from selfless giving — from what is ultimately the sacred value of hospitality.

I focused not only on moments, but on fragments of everyday life: glances that speak, gestures, and above all, the light of humanity — the quiet dignity of a place that insists on living with love and modesty.
Giannouli is not merely a photo album; it is a personal act of reverence — a pilgrimage to the memory of hospitality, as it is embodied in the people of the countryside.

CΟ-CAPITAL

[zine]

Sophia Tolika & Kostis Argyriadis

Published by the creators in collaboration with Zoetrope Athens

Edited by: Sophia Tolika & Kostis Argyriadis

Designed by: Yorgos Yatromanolakis & Kaja Theissen

Printed in Thessaloniki by: KEDA*PRESS, April 2024

Softcover

14.0cm x 18.8cm, 44 pages

Edition of 250 (numbered)

Risography print in recycled paper Shiro Eco 120g

In their collaborative work ‘Co-capital’, Sophia Tolika and Kostis Argyriadis aim to provide commentary through their lens on their birthplace and current home, Thessaloniki. Through their photos, they scrutinize whether one of the city’s designated monikers, ‘Co-capital,’ accurately reflects its contemporary portrayal.

The black-and-white and color photographs by the two creators intertwine with each other and with the city’s slogans, creating associative links with the history of the city while visually mirroring the torn, smudged, and detached posters commonly found on the gray walls of Thessaloniki.

MUNDUS

Designed by: Jaime Narvàez

Printed in Spain by: Artes Gráficas Palermo (June 2021)

Softcover with blind embossing

14.8cm x 21.0cm, 112 pages

Published: June 2021

 

MUNDUS (the Latin word for World) is a journey through spaces and materials, signs of life and personal items investigating the relationship between the subterranean world and the Cosmos.

Photos, taken between 2010-2019 during the construction of underground infrastructure in the city of Thessaloniki reveal an invisible world that is in constant flux, shaped through explosions and demolitions, metamorphoses and transformations, thrusts and reconstructions. Connotations are evoked primarily from visual references to outer space, space missions and astronomical drawings, as well as through the alternating scale and angle of view of the pictures.

MUNDUS brings out the beauty of exploration and the mystery of creation combining art with science, the imaginary with the real and the earthy with the aerial, through a visual process that borrows from geology, engineering, astronomy, mathematics and art.

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MUNDUS Special Edition

Sophia Tolika

Limited Edition of 20 copies –

Part of the collection of Centre Canadien d’ Architecture

Part of the collection of  Charles Seale-Hayne Library, Plymouth University

Each comprising:

– a signed, numbered copy of the book’s initial print run

– two acousmatic compositions (audio tracks downloadable by QR code) produced by sound designer Anastasios Kokkinidis, based on field recordings made by Sophia Tolika in the underground world of Thessaloniki

– a signed high quality archival Fine art Inkjet 23×15,5 cm print in Hahnemühle Photo Rag (308gsm, 100% cotton) paper. Each box includes a unique fine art print.

– a small specimen from the imaginary world of MUNDUS

together housed in a 24 x 18 x 3cm black eco paper box.

The fine art print is one of these 20 photos of the book put randomly in the box.

 

 

The 2 acousmatic compositions (‘MUNDUS: How does it resonate?’ – Parts One & Two) can be listened autonomously or while reading the book “MUNDUS” offering a more augmented narrative -or even a new one- and an enriched atmosphere to the photographs of the book.

You may have a preview here https://soundcloud.com/mundus_special_edition but you may listen and download the full audio works (in .WAV or.mp3 320 format) by buying the MUNDUS Special Edition.

 

 

MUNDUS (the Latin word for World) is a journey through spaces and materials, signs of life and personal items investigating the relationship between the subterranean world and the Cosmos.

Photos, taken between 2010-2019 during the construction of underground infrastructure in the city of Thessaloniki reveal an invisible world that is in constant flux, shaped through explosions and demolitions, metamorphoses and transformations, thrusts and reconstructions. Connotations are evoked primarily from visual references to outer space, space missions and astronomical drawings, as well as through the alternating scale and angle of view of the pictures.

MUNDUS brings out the beauty of exploration and the mystery of creation combining art with science, the imaginary with the real and the earthy with the aerial, through a visual process that borrows from geology, engineering, astronomy, mathematics and art.

 

The special edition of Mundus is SOLD OUT.

 

FOINIKAS: A STROLL IN THE CITY (Ν.8)

ΦΟΙΝΙΚΑΣ: ΕΝΑΣ ΠΕΡΙΠΑΤΟΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΠΟΛΗ (Ν.8)

Edited by: Hercules Papaioannou

16.5cm x 21.0cm, 36 pages

Published: 2019

Editions: University Studio Press

ISBN : 978-960-12-2473-2

During the spring of 2019, three photographers (Yiannis Ioakeimidis, Aleka Tsironi, Michele Troiani) and I, were invited by Hercules Papaioannou to photograph the neighborhood of Foinikas in Thessaloniki. At the end, these photographs were edited by Mr. Papaioannou and the book “Foinikas: A stroll in the city” was published.

Hercules Papaioannou is a curator at The Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki (MOMus).

You can find this issue and all other issues of “A stroll in the city” at many bookshops and art places, as well as at the site of University Studio Press Editions.

HOMES SWEET HOMES

self-published
edition of 150
80 pages
40 photographs
14,8 x 21cm
Date of publication: August 2016
Designed by: Monoscopic

ISBN: 978-960-93-8101-7

“Home, sweet home, my sweet old little home”, goes an old Greek saying. The Greek word for home, “σπίτι”, is derived from the medieval Greek word ὁσπίτιον (hospitium in Latin), which means room, household, homeland, dwelling, family. The Greek word for family —οικογένεια— is a compound word from the ancient Greek words οίκος (home) and γίγνομαι (to come into being).

The photographic series “Homes Sweet Homes” seeks to approach the familiar and the ordinary, found at home, at friends’ places, in family gatherings, and in previous, now abandoned dwellings.
Could there be visual, photographic interest in the everyday and the ordinary?
Through images where people, places and objects interweave, this photographic series initiates a dialogue with the past and explores memory, motherhood, playfulness, absence, the traces we leave in space, and ultimately, our own perspective of places and people in our daily lives.

It has been presented at:

• The Photobook Exhibition of Athens Photo Festival 2016, Athens, Greece
• 7th Feira do Livro de Fotografia de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
  
• 4th International Conference of Photography & Theory (ICPT2016), Nicosia, Cyprus

 

Σάσα

• self-published
• edition of 3
• 38 pages
• 24 photographs
• 15,1 × 22,8 cm
• Date of publication: April 2017
• Designed by: Sophia Tolika
• ISBN: 978-1-36-612061-8

• Σάσα is the story of a young woman and her close friend through the years, written in just one day.
• It started initially as an intimate text, a reaction at a shocking situation, a confession.
• Later on, in order to draw the whole atmosphere of this friendship, it started being enriched with pictures of things and situations that these two women, me and her, had lived together.
• Σάσα became in the end an attempt to combine text with photography, photography with text, trying to see how these two different languages can work together as a whole without overlapping one another.