Delighted to announce that as a winner at the 13th Black & White Spider Awards my image of the thinking chimpanzee has been published in the Winners Book 2019.
Produced to promote your achievement at the awards, the Winners Book is a sourcebook of photography talent that allows creatives to connect directly when looking to source talent for their projects.
Happy to announce that the “Portrait of a Chimpanzee", an image from my “Animal Kingdom” series received an Honorable Mention in the 13th International Black and White Spider Awards.
This year the Spider Awards received 6,404 entries from 77 countries, while the jury included the industry's biggest names such as Penguin Random House, London; Harper's Bazaar, UK; Victoria Film Festival, Canada; Silvan Faessler Fine Art, Zurich; Time Inc., London; and Fratelli Alinari Photography Museum in Florence.
Excited to announce that three of my recent images will be exhibited in the “Black & White” photography exhibition at Blank Wall Gallery from the 4th to 16th January 2019.
My images will have excellent company: they will be exhibited among the work of many artists from around the world, like the Japanese photographer Naoki Fujihara who was Architecture Photographer of the Year on IPA 2018, the South African photo artist August Naude, the street photographer Michael Melachrinidis, and last but not least, my favourite minimalist artist Theodore Kefalopoulos.
My project "Chimpanzee portraits" won the Silver Award in the "nature-Wildlife" category of the International Prix de la Photographie Paris (Px3) contest.
The Paris Photography Prize (PX3) was founded in 2007, and has since become one of the most prestigious photography awards.
The winning photographs will be presented in an exhibition in Paris at the Espace Beaurepaire (28 rue beaurepaire, Paris) from Tuesday, 10th July to Saturday, 14th July, 2018; see also the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/379199022566317
Honorable Award in the 4th Edition of the "Fine Art Photography Awards" (FAPA), *Fine Art Category) for my portfolio "Serenity in the Gardens of Versailles".
Extremely pleased to announce I am the 3rd place and bronze award winner at the "Nature / Wildlife" category of TIFA awards 2017 for my portfolio "Chimpanzee Portraits".
Check out my entry at:
Excited to announce that my work on the Gardens of Versailles was published by Dodho Magazine.
Dodho.com is an international photography magazine launched in 2013 and currently has more than 750.000 annual hits and 1.600.000 pages views.
Dodho Magazine features the best of contemporary photography, bringing together diverse bodies of work by established and emerging artists from around the globe.
Have a look at my Versailles gallery over at dodho.com: https://www.dodho.com/serenity-gardens-versailles-gregoris-mentzas/
Pleased to announce that my series “Animal portraits” received an Honorable Award in the Nature - Wildlife category of the International Photography Awards 2017 Competition.
The International Photography Awards conducts an annual competition for professional and non-professional photographers on a global scale, creating one of the most ambitious and comprehensive competitions in the photography world today.
This year, the International Photography Awards received 14,273 submissions from over 165 countries.
Super excited to announce that I have won the overall award in the photo competition of the Attica Zoological Park and the first awards in two categories.
Many thanks to the evaluation committee and the Attica Zoological Park for organising the competition and hosting the lovely creatures who are the protagonists!
I am sharing below a gallery with the images I submitted to the contest.
The Milky Way is a galaxy with a diameter between 100,000 and 180,000 light-years which contains 100 to 400 billion (yes, billion!) stars.
If you are in an area which is dark enough and the weather is clear, if you look towards the south you can see the milky way especially during the nights before, during or just after a new moon, when the moonlight is not strong.
I consider myself lucky: the skies above the Kea island, where I spent my summer holidays, were dark and clear enough to make the milky way clearly visible even to the naked eye.
So I couldn’t help myself. I am posting below the result of some nights’ work. Enjoy!
Last week I managed to shoot a photo of myself “lighting up” the milky way.
I always wanted to make such an image - I even bought a high-end LED flashlight for this reason (the Fenix PD35TAC which is mainly used for military and law enforcement purposes).
So last week, under the new moon, I found an area with a southern orientation which had both a clear view of the milky way and relatively limited urban lights, I set up my camera and tripod and tried several versions of the photo.
The one to the right is the one I like best.
Beware: my intention is to try various milky way images this summer, so stay tuned :-)
(More info: Canon 5d mkIII, Samyang 14mm, 20 seconds at f/2.8, ISO 3200, the lights in the background are from Ioulis, the capital of Kea island)
I travelled quite a bit recently so I added new photos in my "Window Seat" collection.
Happy to announce that I received three Honorable Awards in the “Fine Art Photography Awards” 2017. This year the contest received 6335 submissions from 89 countries around the world. Winners were selected by highly acclaimed panel of international judges, including: Tim Franco, Nadia Dias, Liza Van der Stock, Matilde Gattoni, Amélie Labourdette, Valery Klamm and Pierre Abensur. My awarded images were:
I have been many times in the past (and most probably be many times in the future) at the Grand Place in Brussels, Belgium, and always wanted to capture the beauty of this magnificent place in images. My favourite time is dusk, when the square is illuminated both by the setting sun and the artificial lights of the buildings. I tried to capture the essence of the place with multiple image panoramas, which will allow me to to print really large prints, as well as single shot images of specific details.
See more at my Grand Place gallery.
The Grand Place in Brussels, Belgium
Thrilled to announce that I received three Honorable Mentions in the “Monochrome Awards” the International Black and White Photography Contest.
The 2016 Monochrome Awards received 8122 submissions from 81 countries around the world.
The awarded images were:
Happy to announce that I received four Honorable Mentions in the ND Awards 2016 competition. The awarded images were in:
the “Fine Art - Other” category with the image “Bird on rocks”,
two awards in the “Night Photography” category with the series “Nightscapes”, and the image “Star trails” and in
the “Landscape” category with the series “Tranquility at the lagoon”.
Excited to announce that I received four nominations at the international contest “11th Annual Black & White Spider Awards”:
Black & White Spider Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence in black and white photography. This year there were 7,556 entries from 71 countries. The Jury represented the industry's biggest names and tastemakers who reviewed the entries online before making their nominations and honoring 627 awards and 951 nominees in 31 categories.
Happy to announce that I received two Honorable Mentions in this year's International Photography Awards 2016 Competition, which received 17,039 of submissions from over 162 countries.
The awarded images were:
Many news outlets reported on the "Travelling" exhibition at Blank Wall Gallery.
Check out the links for some of them below:
http://www.nexusmedia.gr/travelling-in-blank-wall-gallery/
http://www.lifo.gr/guide/arts/3949
http://www.mikrocosmos.gr/travelling/
http://www.protothema.gr/city-stories/article/608569/fotografiko-taxidi/
http://www.elculture.gr/blog/travelling/
http://360views.gr/travelling-blank-wall-gallery/
http://www.athensvoice.gr/guide/events/travelling
http://www.toperiodiko.gr/εκθεση-φωτογραφίας-travelling-το-ταξίδι-μέσ/#.V9lwXVci8qZ
http://www.artandlife.gr/Athina-thematiki_ekthesi_fotografias_travelling
http://www.vsmusicnet.com/2016/09/travelling-ekthesi-fwtografias-sth-blank-wall-gallery.html
The Blank Wall Gallery at Athens, Greece, is hosting a photography exhibition on "Travelling" with photos from photographers all over the world and includes one of my images from the lake of Bled.
The exhibition is from 10 until 23 September 2016.
Check out the exhibition on the site of the gallery: http://www.blankwallgallery.com/exhibitions-travelling/
