NEWS
Americans Parade will be exhibited at the Athens Photo Festival in the Benaki Museum from 8th June
3 day workshop during the Photo Solstice festival in Barbagia, Sardinia from June 14th to 19th.
Vanessa and I are running a free workshop as part of the The Photo Solstice in beautiful Sardinia mid June. Details to the open call can be found here thephotosolstice.com/open-call-2022/ , deadline May 22. We will follow the workshop with a 2 week residency.
In conversation Cinesud Fotomagazine
Vanessa and I will be in conversation with Massimo Mastrorillo about our photobooks and book process, Tuesday 19th, 6pm UK time, 7pm Central Europe.
Link
A nice introduction by Massimo Mastrorillo, Cinesud Fotomagazine
Vanessa Winship and George Georgiou - A poetic, coherent and free vision on the trail of the American Dream
Telling the American landscape through photography is a difficult undertaking. There are many iconic references that belong on a permanent basis to the history of photography and that often end up making any new image a “deja-vù”.
Just think of authors like Robert Adams and the New Topographics movement , Stephen Shore, Mitch Epstein, Richard Misrach, Joel Sternfeld, Joel Meyerowitz and the more recent Todd Hido and Alec Soth or the directors Michelangelo Antonioni and Wim Wenders (both with cinema than with photography) or to artists like Ed Ruscha , just to name a few.
In photography as in art, nothing absolutely new can be invented, but it is still possible to work on the nuances, on the areas of light and shadow, on the "concept", as is done in literature where, even in known contexts, there is it is always room for new stories.
Vanessa Winship and George Georgiou did it, with talent, with totally different approaches, giving themselves that respect, admiration, love and that desire to support each other that are the basis of the relationship that has binds them emotionally since their university days.
After wandering with George for about ten years (since 1999) in the Balkans, in Turkey and in the territories of the Black Sea, living there and creating works that have met the consensus of the public and critics, Vanessa achieves deserved success with a series of portraits made in Anatolia entitled Sweet Nothings (2007). Young female students wearing school uniforms, in an area where female schooling does not belong to history and tradition, are portrayed with empathy and sensitivity, highlighting its fragility, simplicity, grace and naturalness. The project represents a fundamental turning point in Vanessa's formal approach. He abandons the intimate and reportage photography in 35 mm and moves on to the portrait in the optical bench, then to an even slower and more reflective photography,
Vanessa Winship - She Dances On Jackson (2013)
The photographs are taken in the West, Midwest and South of the United States in perfect harmony with the “road trip” philosophy so dear to Jack Kerouac and Robert Frank . At her side is George who acts as her assistant, companion, driver and in the meantime he takes note and begins to think about a possible project, when his turn comes, in this same country, so boundless and full of contradictions.
What emerges in this work by Vanessa is the increasing sensitivity for the individuality of people and for the places in which they live. Vanessa's American Odyssey is a discovery without any pretence of telling something precise or definite, where a particular attention to the marginal and a love for words, those heard by chance or stolen from a book, is revealed. Ultimately, it is the words that have always played a fundamental role in guiding her and taking her by the hand on her travels and in her research.
"She Dances on Jackson" is exhibited at the HCB Foundation and Michael Mack publishes the book, now sold out, selected by several critics and insiders as one of the best books produced in 2013.
In 2018 a retrospective exhibition of Vanessa Winship accompanied by the catalog “And Time Folds” also published by Mack Books was organized at the Barbican Art Gallery in London . Seeing all the production of this author helped to understand how her investigation has always been in search of notions such as the border, the land, memory, desire, history, transience, be it the landscape or society. Both the book and the exhibition also include personal archive material that reveals Winship's thought process, her working methods, decreeing her definitive consecration as a poetess of the coherent, aware and participating image.
George Georgiou - Americans Parade (2019)
In 2016, against the backdrop of the presidential elections, George Georgiou decides to portray the crowds attending the parades, one of the most widespread and typical American customs. In Americans Parade , this time accompanying George is Vanessa, ready to give the same support she received previously. George also uses the portrait but unlike Vanessa he does not isolate the subjects, he takes them back in a total, serial way, using a language that lies between the Düsseldorf school and the wonderful work of Paul Fusco “RFK Funeral Train” .
In twelve months Georgiou (the same amount of time used by Vanessa in her project) visits twenty-six parades, in twenty-four cities, across fourteen states, with the support of the New York Times Magazine.
"I observed the landscape and the groups of people that caught my attention, the fleeting moments, but I also embraced the generosity of the photographic medium, its ability to record and stop much more than I could capture".
The crowd gives the photograph that element of randomness from which the photograph itself is often generated. The result is an incredibly intense, complex, ambiguous, multi-ethnic portrait of the United States. In the apparently harmless images, the viewer is able to read the racial, social and geographical boundaries that distinguish American society.
Americans Parade has been exhibited in several countries and George has managed to carry out a very demanding crowdfunding campaign to print a self-produced book that excels in quality and care.
One thing unites the images of Vanessa and George: the essentiality, the simplicity in the approach, the empathy and the depth of the vision that has nothing to do with the style but only with the humanity that distinguishes the two authors.
Vanessa and George continue to move between their small home in Bulgaria and their home in England, in the leftovers of time that advance between exhibitions, workshops and talks. Always available, attentive, generous.
As part of Photobook weekend a free online conversation, Sunday 27 Feb, 10pm GMT
I will be in conversation with Emmanuelle Andrianjafy about their book-making practices. Chaired by Markus Schaden, Director of the PhotoBook Museum, Cologne.
Americans Parade will be exhibition during Photo 2021 in Melbourne
A few short video Interviews I did for the Spazio Labo exhibition
01 | George Georgiou in conversation | What is the genesis of Americans Parade?
02 | George Georgiou in conversation | How did you approach the making of the project?
03 | George Georgiou in conversation | What about the book Americans Parade?
04 | George Georgiou in conversation | Is 2016 similar to 2020 America?
05 | George Georgiou in conversation | Can you share your inspirations with us?
Americans Parade exhibition at Spazio Labo, Bologna.
Americans Parade at Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise QPN festival, Nantes, France. October 16 to November 15, 2020
A 6-day workshop in Athens with Vanessa Winship & George Georgiou + ASX & Void's team
We welcome eminent artists Vanessa Winship and George Georgiou at Void’s space in Athens this November for a workshop about photographic process. The artists will work in tandem with a small number of participants and will discuss their projects from their inception to their continued dedication. Participants are asked to bring work with them for a personal one to one session but the central premise is that all participants will create new work during the lab.
Vanessa and George will work with the participants to examine their day-to-day progress. They will encourage the participants to consider the local environment, engaging as fully and clearly as possible in order to bring back their best notes. The aim is not to make a finished product per se, nor is it to create the perfect pictures, rather to engage with the act of making visual notes and to begin to understand how this material can be used either simply as notes or to be drawn together through a process of editing and sequencing towards making a larger body of work.
ASX will be conducting interviews on site and will feature a body of work at the end of the laboratory by one student chosen by Void and ASX teams. Void will also be aiding in the production of a collective zine with the work produced during the workshop, for the participants to take away at the end of the workshop. The participants will be asked to be involved in the publishing process. ASX and Void will be directly involved in reviewing work and will be on site and working with Vanessa & George to bring the optimum workshop experience to each participant. This workshop features three key components that students will have access to-the artists Vanessa Winship & George Georgiou, the publisher Void and the American Suburb X platform.
I did an interview with Brad Feuerhelm for Nearest Truth, a podcast full of great interviews with a wide range of photographers, artist, curators, writers and many more
I was able to catch up with esteemed photographer George Georgiou about his incredible work. We spoke about a number of different series and books including his last book Americans Parade which is a prescient title given the impending 2020 elections. George has a knack for fielding important events in real time and though his subject changes, his political concerns remain present whether it is work made in Turkey, American, England, Kosovo or Serbia.
Americans Parade exhibition at ICP museum
Really delighted that Americans Parade will be exhibited at the ICP museum in NYC this autumn. 13 3 metre prints will be displayed throughout the galleries.
Install photos from Getxophoto and FNAC, Bilboa and Donostia
Getxophoto festival
Americans Parade will be part of the Getxophoto festival with an on street installation and 2 exhibitions in the Fnac stores in Bilbao and San Sebastian, Spain.
Lababuch Workshop
Spent a wonderful intense week at Lababuch workshops with a great group of photographers.
Walker Evans Revisited exhibition at the Kunsthalle, Mannheim has reopened to the public and can be visited virtually.
The Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie 2020 are 6 exhibitions curated by David Campany under the title of “The Lives and Loves of Images“ across 3 cities. All exhibitions are now opened and extended until the 21 June.
In conversation with Brian Ulrich
The inaugural Virtual—Assembly brings together artists and thinkers from around the world, at a time when half the population of the planet is on lockdown. Alongside the talks there are a lot of publishers showing flip-through videos of their books. Discover books from booksellers large and small from all over the world, and buy them directly from the people who make them.
Americans Parade will be part of the Walker Evans Revisited exhibition curated by David Campany at the Kunsthalle Mannheim
Walker Evans Revisited brings together two different types of reactions by contemporary artists and photographers. On the one hand, there is the continuation and expansion of Evans' everyday photography. On the other hand, the exhibition shows numerous projects by artists who react directly to Evans' pictures and projects. These range from appropriation and collage to reinterpretation and homage.
With works by: Julia Curtin, Walker Evans, Camille Fallet, George Georgiou, Darren Harvey-Regan, Lisa Kereszi, Justine Kurland, Sherrie Levine, Ute Mahler & Werner Mahler, Michael Mandiberg, James Nares, Jessica Potter, Patrick Pound, RaMell Ross , Mark Ruwedel, Anastasia Samoylova, Bryan Schutmaat, Stephen Shore, Vanessa Winship
Workshop at LABabuch in France: The workshop is now fully booked
Vanessa and I are mentoring a one week workshop in the French countryside this August. It will be a fully immersive experience, with the price including accommodation and food, darkroom and printer. The workshop is organised by LABabuch and the wonderful photographer Israel Arino.
Americans Parades will be available during Paris Photo at the Deadbeat Club stall at Polycopies and Kominek at Offprint
Americans Parade Book Launch and Exhibition at Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne 31st October
Americans Parade has been shortlisted for the Aperture/Paris Photo book of the year
The shortlist selection was made by Amanda Maddox, associate curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Joanna Milter, director of photography at the New Yorker, Drew Sawyer, Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum, Lesley A. Martin, creative director of Aperture Foundation and publisher of The PhotoBook Review, and Christoph Wiesner, artistic director of Paris Photo.
Vanessa and I are running a workshop in collaboration with Vu education and RN7 in Nyons, France
Vanessa Winship and I are teaching a weekend workshop, a public presentation and a pop up exhibition at A Ilha in Lisbon.
Civilization: The Way We Live Now book and exhibition
A selection of images from Americans Parade are included in the new book, Civilization: The Way We Live Now edited by William A. Ewing and Holly Roussell. The work will form a major exhibition showing at various museum starting with National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea October 18 2018 - February 17 2019, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, March 9 - May 19 2019, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, September 13 2019 - February 2 2020 and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand, June 13 - October 18 2020
Civilization shows how contemporary photography, notably art photography, is fascinated by, and attempts to decode and communicate, the way we live today. This landmark publication is accompanied by an internationally touring exhibition produced by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography a global cultural event for a global subject. Civilization is presented through eight thematic chapters, each led by breathtaking imagery and accompanied by essays, quotes, commentaries and captions to provide a deeper understanding of its theme. Visually epic and ambitiously popular in approach, it will reach out beyond the boundaries of the photography world to connect with audiences worldwide.
Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale 2018
I was invited by the Museum of Photography to curate Americans Parade alongside the work of Yiannis Stylianou
Why do people attend parades, then and now? They may be validating historic milestones of local or national significance. They may be confirming a convention of social discipline. This inevitable interaction between strangers surely produces a sense of cohesiveness, of togetherness, despite social stratification. Parades release adrenaline, being a staged public show that enhances memory and at times raises the morale, attracting mainly the middle and lower classes that seek opportunities to declare their presence in the public space -especially in these neurotic times of over-enhanced individuality and lonely surfing in the world of images. Stylianou and Georgiou create a dense, multilayered narrative, without a visible incident, having everyday people as the involuntary protagonists. The coupling of their works bespeaks the change of pace of the photographic approach; Stylianou appears to get close to the unsuspecting citizen within the limits of his discretion, whereas Georgiou keeps a strict safety distance, including in the same shot the allusive association between people and the public space that contains them. Suprisingly both artists reveal plenty, albeit referring to something that exists beyond the frame.
Ηercules Papaioannou Director Thessaloniki Museum of photography,
©Yiannis Stylianou
©Yiannis Stylianou
Exhibition and workshop, Verona, Italy
I will be Exhibiting Fault Lines at Q1 gallery and Last Stop at Q3 gallery in Verona and teaching a weekend workshop with Quasi Fotografo
A Road Less Travelled
Internationally acclaimed photographers Vanessa Winship and George Georgiou will offer a duet presentation of their work developed in the USA in recent years. Saturday 9th June 8pm
Istanbul Photobook Festival
Last Stop complete book exhibited at the Istanbul Photobook Festival.
Unseen London by Hoxton Mini Press
A selection of images from Last Stop are included in the new book, Unseen London edited by Rachel Segal Hamilton and published by Hoxton Mini Press
London is one of the world’s most photographed cities, so you might think there’s nothing left to see. But you’d be wrong. Through the eyes of 25 contemporary photographers you can venture along hidden canals, around notorious housing estates, through surreal street scenes and deep underground. This is London as it is today, and as you’ve never seen it before.
This illuminating book compiles the work of 25 world-class photographers:
Thom and Beth Atkinson, James O Jenkins, Rut Blees Luxemburg, David Vintiner, Matt Stuart, Janie Airey, Vicky Grout, Ben West, Effie Paleologou, Stephen Leslie, Dougie Wallace, Anton Rodriguez, Simon Norfolk, Mark Sanders, George Georgiou, Andy Sewell, Lorenzo Vitturi, Carl Bigmore, Giacomo Brunelli, Cian Oba-Smith, Johanna Neurath, Lewis Bush, Shahed Saleem and Nick Turpin.
Applications open for a workshop Vanessa Winship and I are teaching in NYC in collaboration with Spazio Labo
Ipswich Residency for Photoeast
I was commissioned to photograph Ipswich from it’s buses as part of the Photoeast festival. The results were shown along the waterfront and inside a number of buses. During the residency I also ran a one day workshop from a bus.
Last Stop exhibition at Spazio Labo, Bologna
Last Stop exhibition at Galerie Le Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse, France
I have a contribution in The Photographer’s Playbook edited by Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern, Aperture.
The Photographer s Playbook features photography assignments, as well as ideas, stories, and anecdotes from many of the world s most talented photographers and photography professionals. Whether you re looking for exercises to improve your craft alone or in a group or you re interested in learning more about the medium, this playful collection will inspire fresh ways of engaging with photographic process. Inside you will find advice for better shooting and editing, creative ways to start new projects, games and activities, and insight into the practices of those responsible for our most iconic photographs John Baldessari, Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Jim Goldberg, Miranda July, Susan Meiselas, Stephen Shore, Alec Soth, Tim Walker, and many more. The book also features a Polaroid alphabet by Mike Slack, which divides each chapter, and a handy subject guide. Edited by acclaimed photographers Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern, the assignments and project ideas in this book are indispensable for teachers and students, and great fun for everyone fascinated by taking pictures.
Workshop with Linke Lab in Milan
This Is Mirrionis exhibition opening at the Museum Galleria Comunale d’Arte, Cagliari. Catalogue also available
“this Is Mirrionis”, the exhibition by George Georgiou and Vanessa Winship opens on Thursday July 17th in Cagliari at the Galleria Comunale d’Arte; from 19.00. The exhibition will be on display till October 2014.
From 26 March to 5 May 2014, Vanessa Winship and George Georgiou were the guests of an artists’ residence in Cagliari. The two photographers, companions in their lives and professions, were not acquainted with Sardinia and had never been to Cagliari. They put themselves into play by living first-hand in the streets of the quarters, enduring their silences and enigmas, the days of wind and rain, the abandoned places and the constant embrace of those who came to know them. The result of their six weeks residency are these one hundred and twenty shots, selected and curated by the two photographers.
The story of this visual exploration, as those of the other realities in which the two photographers worked for many years – the Balkans, the republics of the former Soviet Union, in Turkey and the United States – is enhanced by the personal and subjective view of both, but with a common focal point: the relationship between people and the spaces surrounding them in which they conduct their lives and negotiate the perennial fragmentation of the straight line between time and identity.
Legacy, an exhibition I have curated at the Side Gallery, Newcastle
The second of Side Gallery’s Eurovisions exhibitions, linked to the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Legacy looks at the new East-West borderlands of the former Soviet Union republics.
In Udmurtia, in the heart of the Russian landmass, Lucia Ganieva explores DREAMING WALLS, the exotic photo-landscapes opening up from domestic interiors that are a recurring motif throughout the region.
From her Caspian Sea project, PROMISING WATERS, Mila Teshaieva shows her work on Azerbaijan, its vast oil and gas reserves shaping the senses of both state power and individual insecurity.
In BLACK SEA CONCRETE, Rafal Milach explores Ukraine and Crimea: ‘Once the whole Soviet Union took its holidays in the resorts of the Black Sea. Soviet vacationers left behind Soviet architecture, mentality and sentiment.'
Fellow Polish member of the international collective Sputnik Photos, Justyna Mielnikiewicz has lived in Georgia for 12 years – WOMAN WITH A MONKEY is her tribute to an ‘unpredictable, timeless, Felliniesque country, both cruel and hilarious.’
Donald Weber’s INTERROGATIONS opens up on the policemen, working girls, thugs, dissidents and hustlers in Ukranian police stations, their disturbing portraits expanding or sense of what it means to be a bit part in the dark opera of encounters with power.
In GROZNY: NINE CITIES, members of the Russian photography collective Verso Images, Olga Kravets, Maria Morina and Oksana Yushko have created a multimedia photo novel exploring the different aspects of the Chechnyan city reduced to rubble in two wars.
Legacy was planned in 2013, before the events in Ukraine, which continue to unfold. The portraits in Ukranian photographer Alexander Chekmenev’s WARRIORS are from the barricades of Euromaidan in Kiev and were taken during the February revolution.
Vanessa Winship and I have been invited for a 6 week residency to produce a new body of work in response to the Is Mirrionis district of Cagliari, Sardinia
British photographer George Georgiou’s haunting images of modern Turkey show a country of marked contrasts.
Review of Fault Lines in Atlanta Journal-Constitution by Felicia Feaster
Whether in his landscapes or portraits, Georgiou has a way of wrapping his subjects with devouring expanses of space — lots of sky, mountain ranges and long dusty roads that emphasize a feeling of loneliness that weighs heavily in his photographs.
Jackson Fine Art Gallery
Fault Lines exhibition at Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, GA
The results of the project "Visual Narratives: European Borderlines" (2011 - 2012)
Photographers: Andrejs Strokins, Cemil Batur Gökçeer, Ana Catarina Pinho, Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir, Tiago Casanova, Valdis Thor, André Príncipe, Ilze Vanaga, Heiða Helgadóttir, Sevim Sancaktar, Reinis Hofmanis, Ahed Can Boyan Mentored by Vanessa Winship and George Georgiou Organised by: ISSP (Latvia), GAPO (Turkey), Maioclaro (Portugal), FISL (Iceland) More information and complete project results: www.europeanborderlines.net The project was supported by the European Cultural Foundation and OSI Arts and Culture Program (c) ISSP 2013
The Colours of the The Black Sea. Tbilisi photo festival
FaultLines/Turkey/East/West will be part of the group show, The Colours of the The Black Sea.
Guiorgui Pinkhassov, Vanessa Winship, George Georgiou, Justyna Mielnikiewicz, Yuri Kozyrev, Rafal Milach, Thomas Dworzak, Philippe Guioni, Julien Danile, Sergey Chilikov
Fault Lines/Turkey/East/West has been selected for this years New Photography show at MoMA, NYC.
Fault Lines at Format festival
I will be showing a 6 screen installation of In/visible London in a joint exhibition with Mini Mollica called Seen/Unseen and 8 photographs from the project on bus shelters running from Mornington Crescent station to Chalk Farm station.
Press release:
This joint show by award-winning photographers Mimi Mollica and George Georgiou, takes a look at Londoner's journeys and public and private lives from two very different perspectives. Both artists use the London bus as a vehicle to penetrate the private spheres people create for themselves while navigating public spaces. In each case the subjects are unaware of the image makers so their thoughts and interactions are undisturbed at the moment of making the picture. It is only in later viewing that the audience has a glimpse of their private world.
Mimi Mollica's brand new work Bus Stories focuses on a hidden view of London’s bus passengers and questions the ethics of public surveillance. His photographs have a dark, almost eerie quality although they are strikingly familiar.
George Georgiou's ongoing project Invisible:London surveys the diverse topography and migration in London through the windows of buses. The work explore the increasing diversity of a major Western metropolis as the movement and migration of people continues to change both the urban landscape and the community within it.
As part of the London Street Photography Festival I will be leading a 5 day workshop
In the Life of Cities, Parallel Narratives of the Urban, edited by Mohsen Mostavafi
I have a selected of Images from my work Last Stop included in this book exploring the urban experience.
What is it that gives places their individual qualities and defines the life of a city? Architects and urbanists are accustomed to describing and creating the organizational structures, the layouts and physical attributes of our cities. But what are the relations between the design of a city—its form—and the life engendered by that form? Responding to this question is the inspiration for In the Life of Cities. Contributors from a wide range of fields address the inseparability of urban life and urban form. Portfolios of contemporary photography assert the layered realities of urban life today.
Visual Narratives: European Borderlines.
Are you from Latvia, Turkey, Portugal or Iceland? A fantastic opportunity to join this free one year workshop and mentoring program led my Vanessa Winship and me.
Fault Lines exhibition at the Athens house of Photography
Presentation at BJP one day festival, London.
Fault Lines exhibition at Spazio Labo, Bologna, Italy
Fault Lines exhibition at the Italian Centre of Contemporary Art, Foligno, Italy
Shadow of the Bear awarded the BJP project Award.
George Georgiou has spent the last decade travelling the Balkans, eastern Europe and Turkey after he and his partner, fellow photographer Vanessa Winship, sold their flat in London “to fund a great adventure”. Having based themselves in Belgrade, and later settling in Istanbul, shooting in-depth stories there and in neighbouring countries, they came back to London two years ago, but have continued shooting projects in the region on extended return visits.
Now Georgiou will go back to Georgia and the Ukraine with £5000 in his pocket – courtesy of the last-ever, Nikon-sponsored, Project Assistance Award – to complete his latest series there, In the Shadow of the Bear.
He was selected from a shortlist of eight photographers who were, along with more than 40 others, published in BJP over the last 15 months of our weekly editions. The eight – including Dana Popa, CJ Clarke, Clare Smart, Kalpesh Lathigra, Liz Hingley, Sayaka Maruyama and Jude Edgington – were given £300 to put together a detailed proposal as to what they would do with the bursary.
Katy Barron, an independent photography curator who acted as the contest’s judge, then read through the proposals and selected Georgiou. “In light of what he has done before, I can see that he will make a fascinating series,” she comments. “I like the way he linked the two countries. There is a lyrical pattern, which makes the whole more than the some of its parts. It has a personal, but also a universal appeal. I hope this award will push him to the next level in his career.”
In the Shadow of the Bear evolved from a very different idea, Georgiou tells BJP. “The original goal was to look at the eastern revolutions. Having already covered Serbia, I wanted to look at Georgia and Ukraine. I wanted to use these three countries to show the aftermath of the peaceful ‘colour’ revolutions.” But, after spending time in Ukraine, the photographer perceived the strong influence Russia still plays in these former Soviet regions. “Russia continues to interfere in their affairs, the same way the US did in Central America.”
In his project proposal, Georgiou writes that a “major geopolitical battle is still being fought out in Ukraine and Georgia, in their nascent stages of independence and nation-building and as they try to free themselves from Russian influence. Russia sees both countries as part of its sphere of influence, and as such acts like an imperial power towards its smaller neighbours.”
In the Shadow of the Bear will explore life after the Rose Revolution of 2003 in Georgia, and the 2004 Ukrainian Orange Revolution. “The work looks, in subtle and quiet moments, at the signs in the domestic and public spheres, which when taken together, build up a representation of how ordinary people in Georgia and Ukraine negotiate the everyday space that they find themselves in,” he says. “I am looking at each country individually, with their own very different dynamics and characteristics, but also the aspects that are familiar between the two through their shared history in the Soviet Union.”
Georgiou has already shot many pictures in the series, but says: “Now I have to fine-tune it. I need to look at the signs and symbols and at Russia’s presence. I am now at the more complex and reflective stage of producing the photographs and visual links that will bridge the two nations together in the shadow of Russia.”
Over the summer he plans to go back to both countries to explore the Black Sea coast and study the large residential districts around Kiev and Tbilisi. He expects to finish the work in September before taking on the longer task of editing and designing a monograph.
Georgiou will present his work at this year’s Vision, BJP’s annual event for early-career photographers, which takes place at the Business Design Centre on 19 November.
I was assigned by COURRiER Japan to photograph on the 20th January. I decided to base my day on my ongoing project of photographing London from the bus.
A hundred photographers from around the world had been assigned by COURRiER Japan to photograph on January 20th, 2009, the historical day U.S. President Barack Obama was inaugurated into the White House. The theme is “HOPE”. Where the photographer sees it, and where do people need it most?
My second exhibition at Side Gallery in Newcastle opens on 22 May.
Fault Lines at Artnet gallery, Athens Photo festival
Fault Lines/Turkey/East/West has been selected for the Moving Walls exhibition in NYC alongside Dana Popa, Ed Kashi, Jonathan Torgovnik and the Katrina Media Fellows
Interview with photographer George Georgiou on his work, "Fault Lines: Turkey East to West" in the group photography exhibition Moving Walls 14.
Clean Monday awarded World Press Photos 2nd Arts and Entertainment Stories
The Serbs awarded World Press Photos 1st place Portrait Stories