The Athens Photo Festival is the largest international photography event in Greece. This year, 70 artists and artistic collectives from 30 countries are taking part in the main exhibition, which unfolds across 3,000 square metres, occupying all the spaces of the Benaki Museum on Pireos.
With a clear focus on contemporary photographic creation, the Festival takes a probing look at some of the key issues, challenges and complexities of our times, foregrounding social, political and intercultural concerns.
Photographic works, interactive installations, screenings, archival material and art publications offer a rich panorama of what preoccupies photographic practice today.
Manolis Moresopoulos is the Artistic Director of the Athens Photo Festival:
First of all, what interests us is that the visitor should wander through the exhibitions. There is no single overarching theme into which all the exhibitions and works presented are subsumed, nor are there separate thematic categories. In essence, we invite visitors to look at photography not only as a standalone work, but to see how it acquires meaning and how it coexists within the space: how one artist’s work enters into dialogue with that of other artists and how connections or ruptures between them arise.
