Programme of Athens Photo Festival 2020:

The 2020 main programme will take place during the months June and July 2020, at the Benaki Museum, one of the oldest and most prestigious museums in Greece. The exhibition programme will be comprised of a series of solo and group exhibitions, presenting a wide spectrum of works selected through an international open call for proposals in combination with invited artists. At the core of the festival is a range of events, including portfolio reviews, screenings, talks and discussions, workshops, and various participatory and ephemeral projects. In addition to the main venue-based programme, the festival encourages community involvement through satellite exhibitions in various locations in the city.

International Open Calls:

There are three main categories for submission:

• Main Exhibitions
• Screenings
• Photobook Show

Athens Photo Festival theme 2020:

This year’s main theme, under the title [mis/dis]placed, is aimed at investigating how collective consciousness and individual perception and position are shaped, in relation to the fast-changing global situation, intertwining both politics and poetics

Athens Photo Festival 2020 looks forward:

The festival continues to evolve with the times and looks forward to developing projects that open up new audiences for photography and exploring realms where photography intersects with other creative disciplines.

Portfolio Reviews:

• One-on-0ne with international experts

The Athens Photo Festival’s international Portfolio Reviews offer an opportunity for serious amateurs and professional photographers to meet with key industry specialists, get constructive critique of their work and career advice as well as to enhance networking and collaboration opportunities. 

• Photo Voices

Photo Voices bring together internationally acclaimed photo practitioners and critical thinkers, whose work and thought stands out for their subject matter, process and critical insight.  

• Photography as Performance
• Where photography meets performance

Contemporary art encourages the interaction across conventional boundaries of expressive fields. Since 2009, Athens Photo Festival has been an excellent opportunity for experimenting with the ways through which an artistic medium between life and art (performance) and a major visual art (photography) can cross boundaries and create interesting hybrids.

• Night of Photography

A one night photography and multimedia special event

The Night of Photography is a new one night event offering the audience multiple perspectives on the use of images –both moving and still– in contemporary culture that provoke or engage in conversations with other media, such as film, music and literature.

• Professional Development Workshop
• An intensive training programme for emerging photographers

Developed for national and international emerging photographers, Professional Practice Programme is an intensive 4 days workshop that focuses on essential careers advice and professional development. The programme will be organised in close collaboration with various partner organisations and specialists from international photography community.

• Athens Photo Marathon

Over 1.000 contestants starting from the centre of Athens and using photography as a common language will be encouraged to participate in a “photography marathon”, to interact and to express themselves, by recording through their own lens and within six hours, four given subjects inspired by the urban life and its experience.

• Family Photo Sundays
• Enjoy photography with your family

Spark your imagination and creativity with a family visit to the main exhibition programme at the Benaki Museum. Throughout the summer, school-aged children and adults can discover and enjoy contemporary photography and image culture and participate in fun and playful learning experiences together.

Submissions are open:

• Entry Deadline: Monday 21 March 2020
• Main Theme: [mis/dis]placed

Entry Fee:

Entry fee is 18 € per submission.