In this picture with a long shutter speed stars move in the night sky during the Perseid meteor shower in the Pineios Lake near the village of Velanidi, Peloponnese, Greece, late Thursday. The Perseids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle. The Perseids shower is visible from mid-July each year, with the peak in activity being between Aug. 9 and 14 depending on the particular location of the stream. [Petros Giannakouris/AP]
The Thessaloniki Museum of Photography presents “Shadows of the Mind,” a selection of work by renowned South Africa-based American photographer Roger Ballen.
The Greek capital’s Blank Wall Gallery brings together work by more than 300 photographers from 77 countries for the International Photo Festival in the Cretan city of Hania.
“Red,” an exhibition at the Blank Wall Gallery, celebrates a color that means very different things to different people, associated with a range of emotions from love, lust, anger and passion, but which for Greeks tends to symbolize courage.
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) is hosting the open-air photography exhibition “Parontes” (Present), a stunning collection of 43 photojournalism projects capturing the unfolding drama of the coronavirus pandemic during the Greek lockdown.
Blank Wall Gallery in downtown Athens is hosting an exhibition titled “Monochrome,” featuring black-and-white photos by artists from all over the world, with creativity being the common denominator.
The annual “Photographic Pairs” exhibition, organized by the Hellenic American Union, the Hellenic American College (HAEC) and the Photography Circle, is holding its 2020 edition at the Hellenic American Union.
The George Economou Collection in Maroussi, northern Athens, presents a solo exhibition by Canadian photographer Jeff Wall’s featuring a selection of his works from between the late 1980s and the 2010s.
Any reminder that there are good and conscientious people doing their jobs for the Greek state diligently in the right post is good news that gives hope.
“Delphi Beyond Antiquity” is a group photography exhibition that will take place at the House of Cyprus near Syntagma Square in central Athens.
iFocus gallery in downtown Athens presents a group photography exhibition curated by Platon Rivelli and titled “The Smile,” from January 30 to February 15.
Cityscapes, a photo exhibition whose main theme is big urban centers and their architecture, will be on display at Blank Wall Gallery in the Kypseli neighborhood of downtown Athens from January 24 to February 5.
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Rethymno on Crete and KOLEKTIV8 present “Critical Archives IV: Documents,” the main exhibition from the Medphoto Festival’s 2019-2020 edition “Archive: Between the Public and the Private.”
The Benaki Museum’s Pireos Street annex is currently hosting an exhibition put together by Lifo magazine to celebrate the weekly free-press/city guide’s 15th anniversary titled “Athenians: The Face of a City.”
These days the discovery of film footage shot in Greece in 1929 is greeted with the same excitement as that for an ancient archaeological find.
The Piraeus Bank Cultural Foundation presents a collection of photographs by Theodoros Papageorgiou, who traveled across the Peloponnese capturing the beauty of its lakes, beaches and rivers.
As part of the Tempo Forte program of events celebrating cultural and diplomatic ties between Greece and Italy, the Foundation of Thracian Art & Tradition in the northern Greek city of Xanthi is hosting an exhibition of works by two esteemed Italian photographers.
Curated by Pavlos Fysakis, Maria Marangou and Dimitris Kechris, “Critical Archives IV: Documents” is the main exhibition at the MedPhoto Festival at the Crete Contemporary Art Museum (CCA).
It’s an ever-changing spectacular: steep ravines and undulating curves around tips and troughs in a landscape that underscores the imposing solitude of the Arctic. “Icebergs are magnetic in every respect, evolving works of art of nature,” says Fokion Zissiadis.
There’s just a couple of days left to catch the exhibition “Light on the Move” by two-time Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Muhammed Muheisen, organized by the UN’s IOM migration agency at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens through Thursday.