Tutor biographies.
Meet the people behind Stereosis: their backgrounds, photographic work and the experience they bring to teaching.
Kosmas Pavlidis
Kosmas Pavlidis was born in 1978 and grew up in Thessaloniki. He is co-founder and academic director of Stereosis. He has taught contemporary photography for many years and curated group and solo exhibitions, screenings and publications. He was also a juror for FOTOFILMIC 17 (Vancouver, Los Angeles and Paris).
His work has been presented at international exhibitions and festivals, including Athens Photo Festival 2017, the 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2017, Medphoto 2016, Photobiennale VII Logos in 2014 and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. His photographs have also been exhibited at Museo de Bogotá, the Municipal Art Gallery of Thessaloniki, the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, the Benaki Museum, the Contemporary Art Centre of Thessaloniki and galleries across Europe.
Paschalis Tseines
Paschalis Tseines was born in Brussels in 1964. His family soon moved to New York, where he spent his early childhood before returning to Greece in 1972.
He began working in photography in 2000 and has participated in numerous group exhibitions.
He is co-founder of Stereosis School of Photography, a photography educator, curator of student exhibitions and head of the school’s darkrooms.
Emmanouil Papadopoulos
Co-founder of Stereosis, photography educator and photographer, contributing to practical photographic teaching and the development of camera, lighting and studio skills.
Chloe Ioanna Pissa
Chloe Ioanna Pissa was born in Larissa in 1985. She graduated from the Electronics Department of the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki in 2009, specialising in multimedia, video and photography. Alongside these studies, she studied photography at Stereosis from 2007 to 2009.
Her work has been presented in group exhibitions, museums and galleries, and selected for events including the 15th Biennale de la Méditerranée and Thessaloniki Photobiennale in 2012. Since 2009, she has lived and worked as a photographer in Thessaloniki.
Exhibitions
- 2007ON VIEW 3 — Stereosis group exhibition
- 2007“Couples” — in collaboration with the Northern Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society
- 2008ON VIEW 4 — Stereosis group exhibition
- 2009“Art Is Hard” — Block 33 exhibition space, Thessaloniki
- 2009ON VIEW 5 — Stereosis group exhibition
- 2011“Faces” — Group exhibition, Thessaloniki
- 2011SYMBIOSIS — 15th Biennale de la Méditerranée, Thessaloniki
- 2011EXPOSURE Photography — Artists Wanted, Aperture Gallery, New York
- 2013“Ordet” — Photobiennale, Thessaloniki
- 2013EXPOSURE Photography — Artists Wanted, Aperture Gallery, New York
- 2014“Logos” — Photobiennale, screening at the Water Supply Museum, Thessaloniki
- 2016“Contacts in the City” — Caravan Project, Port of Thessaloniki
- 2017“UniverCity — 90 years of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki”
Artemis Pyrpilis
Artemis Pyrpilis began studying photography at Stereosis in 2005 and continued at the École de Photographie de Paris in France. After completing her studies, she worked as an official photographer at music and film festivals in France, the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States.
She also worked as a photographer’s assistant and as an assistant to a photographers’ agent at an agency in Paris. She has participated in group exhibitions at C/O Berlin, the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki and the Host Gallery in London, and has held two solo exhibitions in Thessaloniki.
She has taught photography at IEK AKMI and led photography seminars at the State Museum of Contemporary Art and the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography.
Giannis Manolis
Giannis Manolis was born in Thessaloniki in 1995. In 2016, he graduated from the School of Architecture at Metropolitan College of Thessaloniki with a BA (Hons), RIBA I. Since then, he has lived and worked in Thessaloniki, where he attended photography seminars at Stereosis. He has curated solo and group exhibitions and held four solo exhibitions.
His work has appeared in online magazines including Kaltblut, Float and Contributor. He has participated in group exhibitions, including Athens Photo Festival in 2018 and 2022, and exhibited at venues including MOMus–Thessaloniki Museum of Photography and the Benaki Museum.
In 2018, his work was selected from among 277 other photographers and presented in one of the two solo exhibitions organised by the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography for Photobiennale 2018.
In 2019, his work was included in Fotofilmic’s travelling group exhibition in San Francisco, Vancouver and Seoul.
In 2022, The Velvet Cell published his first book, The Hunter, The Woman & The Hut.
Angelos Zymaras
Angelos Zymaras is a professional photographer with more than 25 years of experience, specialising in sports photography for the past twelve years.
He has covered major sporting events, including six editions of the Olympic Games, 17 World Championships and 13 European Championships. He has worked as director of photographic services at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships and the Asian Games.
Born in Greece, he moved to London in 1986 and studied photography at RUTC Photography & Design. He lived there for fifteen years, including four years travelling around the world and photographing social issues for editorial publications.
He founded Stereosis in 1999. In 2004, together with Emmanouil Papadopoulos, Kosmas Pavlidis and Paschalis Tseines, he established Stereosis School of Photography.
He is currently chief photographer at azsportsimages and works with organising committees, institutions and federations as a Photo Manager.
Konstantinos Tsakalidis
Konstantinos Tsakalidis was born in Serres in 1986. He graduated from the Informatics Department of the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki and from Stereosis Photography Centre. He is a freelance photojournalist based in Thessaloniki.
Since 2013, he has documented the Greek crisis and covered the 2015 referendum. From 2015 to 2017, he followed thousands of refugees travelling from the eastern Aegean islands towards Central Europe through the Balkans, and documented their lives in the makeshift camp at Idomeni on the Greece–North Macedonia border. In August 2021, he covered part of the major wildfires in Athens and Evia.
He is a founding member of the Greek collective photo agency SOOC Images and a contributor to Bloomberg News in northern Greece. He covers social, economic and political issues, focusing on Greece, Eastern Europe and Turkey.
In 2022, he was a World Press Photo regional winner for Europe.
Dimitris Tosidis
Dimitris Tosidis was born in Thessaloniki in 1986 and lives there. He works as a photojournalist and regularly contributes to Deutsche Welle and Xinhua.
His work focuses on political and social issues, culture, sport and extreme sports, and visual storytelling.
He studied at the Film Department of the School of Fine Arts at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and at UdK Berlin. He holds a master’s degree in Risk Communication and Crisis Journalism from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
He has received numerous awards, including the Migration Media Award in 2017 and 2018 for his work on the refugee crisis in the Balkans.
In 2021, he won the Athens Photo World award for Diava, a documentary photography project about the remaining nomadic livestock herders who follow traditional migration routes in Epirus.
Alexandros Avramidis
Alexandros Avramidis was born in Thessaloniki in 1971. He has worked as a photojournalist since 1997, covering major news events and stories for Greek and international media, mainly in northern Greece and the Balkans. He has contributed to Reuters since 2012.
His photographs have appeared in major newspapers and magazines in Greece and abroad, including The New York Times, El País, Libération, Corriere della Sera, Der Spiegel, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Kathimerini and VICE.
In 2016, he received the Pulitzer Prize as a member of the Reuters photography team that covered the refugee crisis in Greece and the rest of Europe.
Iokasti Foundouka
Iokasti Foundouka graduated from the School of Architecture at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and is a doctoral candidate in the same department, specialising in Art History.
She holds a master’s degree in the Semiotics of Visual Communication from the interdisciplinary programme “Semiotics, Culture and Communication” at the university’s Faculty of Philosophy.
She has completed year-long continuing education programmes in Cultural Management at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and in the History of the Feminist Movement at Royal Holloway, University of London. She also completed the Stereosis photography courses between 2006 and 2009 and portfolio review seminars with Stratos Kalafatis and Kosmas Pavlidis.
She has participated in group photography and visual art exhibitions, including Thessaloniki Photobiennale and the Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art.
She is a member of Aristotle University’s Media Semiotics Research Group, specialising in the semiotics of photography.
Her research interests include gender representation, photographic art, semiotics and contemporary history.
Athanasia Papadopoulou
She studied contemporary photography at Stereosis from 2004 to 2006. Her work has been presented in exhibitions in Greece and abroad, and her photobook Hotels was self-published in 2019.