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Emma Smith and band on Christmas day

Had an incredible christmas night at Half Note Jazz Club listening listening to the live gig of Emma Smith!

Her soulful vocals and the band's tight grooves had us smiling all evening—pure magic.

“Truths Be Told” at Half note

Truths were told! Had an incredible soaking in the smooth, soulful vibes of David Lynch's “Truths Be Told” at the Half Note Jazz Club.

A magical performance — the kind that stays with you long after the last chord.

Huge thanks David Lynch, Orestis Petrakis, Kostas Patsiotis, Ektoras Remsak and Aristeidis Chatzistavrou

Sinne Eeg Group in Copenhagen

Last week we experienced an unforgettable night filled with soulful music and remarkable artistry with the Sinne Eeg Group at Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen!

Sinne’s stunning vocals, combined with her incredible band - Jacob Christoffersen on piano, Daniel Franck on bass and Jukkis Uotila on drums - created pure jazz magic.

Masterful interpretation of jazz standards and original compositions, colored with that unique Scandinavian melancholy!

If you ever get the chance to see them live, don’t miss it — world-class jazz at its best!

Andreas Polyzogopoulos Electric 4et

Always a pleasure to listen to Andreas Polyzogopoulos’ trumpet as he paints stories in sound — soulful, spontaneous, and alive.

Enjoyed every moment of his electric quartet last Thursday in Half Note Jazz Club with Yiannis Papadopoulos on keyboards, George Constantinou on electric bass and Panagiotis Kostopoulos on the drums!

Pierre Martin at the Music Village in Brussels

Had a wonderful evening on 20th October with Christos and Alexandros at the Music Village in Brussels listening to Pierre Martin's band.

Their gig included jazz versions of groups such as Kneebody, Tigran Hamasyan and Radiohead.

Thanks a lot guys!

Pierre Martin – Drums

Lucas Dorado – Vibraphone

Noé Clerc – Accordion

Latyr Boye – Bass

Night Photography exhibition

I participate in the “Night Photography” group exhibition with my photo “Two Sailboats Under the Milky Way”.

The exhibition takes place at the Blank Wall Gallery in Athens, 30 October - 12 November 2025.

Elles Bailey band in Folken, Stavanger/Norway, 24/9/2025

Huge thanks to Elles Bailey, Demi Marriner and all the band for an incredible gig, at Folken in Stavanger, Norway (24/9/2025). You crushed it!

Exhibition at the Chania International Photo festival (22-26 July 2024)

Exhibition: B&W Athens Photography 2024

Jazz at Thessaloniki

Portraits of jazz musicians at Oratos bar, Thessaloniki (15 November 2023)

  • James Wylie (sax),

  • Kosmas Stefanidis (quitar)

  • Giannis Papatriantafillou (bass)

  • Giorgos Klountzos-Chrysidis (drums).

The AghaRTA Jazz Band

The AghaRTA Band, AghaRTA Jazz Centrum, Prague.

  • Ondřej Kabrna – piano and keyboards

  • Adam Tvrdý – electric guitar

  • Vít Švec – acoustic bass

  • Michal Hejna – drums, band leader

Parkbrug in Antwerp

Parkbrug in Antwerp, a bridge through which one enters the city.

Honorary mention in Still Life photography contest

Happy to announce that one of my mushroom photos received an honorary mention in the 1st Still Life photography contest of the Hellenic Photographic Society.

Two awards in the PX3 competition

My portfolio on the "Bizarre portraits of food" won two Bronze awards in PX3, the international photography competition. The awards were in the categories "Fine Art/Still life" and "Advertising/Food".

Check it out at: https://px3.fr/winners/px3/2020/11307

The Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) is a photography award that strives to promote photography and to discover emerging talent from around the world.

This portfolio is an experiment to try and see everyday ordinary items with a fresh eye. It focuses on the most familiar items around the house: food. Apples, mushrooms, tomatoes, broccoli, pepper and walnuts are the models. The characteristics of these small, mundane and unexciting objects of everyday life are overlooked or neglected. It was their undervalued visual attributes that attracted me. My goal was to create images that look as if these items are of another world, exotic, bizarre and unexpected. The portfolio was developed during the COVID19 lockdown in March and April 2020.

Publication at Dodho magazine

Happy that my project "Bizarre portraits of food" (which I did during the lockdown due to Covid-19) was published by Dodho, the international photography magazine.

This portfolio is an experiment to try and see everyday ordinary items with a fresh eye. It focuses on the most familiar items around the house: food.

Apples, mushrooms, broccoli, almonds, pepper, pistachio and walnuts are the models.

Sometimes the characteristics of these small, mundane and unexciting objects of everyday life are overlooked or neglected. It was their undervalued and overlooked visual attributes that attracted me.

My goal was to create images that look as if these items are of another world, exotic, bizarre and unexpected.

This series strives to form unusual portraits of ordinary items and is an effort to highlight their peculiar shapes and structures.

Honorable Award in the 5th Fine Art Photography Awards

Happy to announce that my series “Silky Seascapes" received an Honorable Mention in the 5th Fine Art Photography Awards.

Fine Art Photography Awards is one of the largest award giving bodies for a community of artists ushering an era of new trends in the world of photography. Fine Art Photography Awards conducts an annual competition for Professional and Amateur photographers. FAPA mission is to celebrate Fine Art photography and to discover emerging talent from around the world.

In 2018 Fine Art Photography Awards got around 4100 entries from 87 countries around the world.

The winners were slected by a panel of international judges, including Matan Katz, Reiko Wakai, Al Mefer, Janelia Mould, Ludwig Favre, Moe Najati, Hilary O'Leary, Mahnoor Malik, Lénaic Sanz, Mariann Fercsik, Kirill Ovchinnikov and Mira Nedyalkova.

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