Yorgos Yatromanolakis was born in Zaros, Crete. He studied at the Department of Informatics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and today lives and works in Athens. His artistic practice unfolds around experimental photography techniques, analog printing processes, artists’ books and audiovisual installations. He is co-founder of artist-run space Zoetrope, in Athens and contributor editor of Phases Magazine.
/ exhibitions:
2025 - Invisible to the Naked Eye, Exhibition - Budapest Photography Festival, Hungary
2025 - Abandoned Cartographies and Other Odd Hours, Exhibition, CAN Gallery, Athens, Greece
2024 - H2H art festival, Exhibition, Associate Gallery, Reykjavik Iceland
2024 - Fotofestiwal - International Festival of Photography, Lodz, Poland
2024 - Kolga - International Photo Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia
2024 - Festival Gnafala, Folk Art Museum, Soufli, Greece
2024 - Lecture, Wydawnictwo Archiwum Słońca, Wrocław, Poland
2024 - Landscape Stories, Municipal Art Gallery, Chania, Greece
2024 - Soprannaturale Piacenza, Exhibition, Collettivo Tiff, Milano, Italy
2024 - Da representação à auto-representação, Exhibition, Adorna Galeria, Porto, Portugal
2024 - Liminality, Exhibition, Citronne Gallery, Athens, Greece
2023 - International Contemporary Photo Festival Incadaqués, Catalonia, Spain
2023 - Bonjour Art Book Fair, Exhibition, Dalian, China
2023 - Photobiennale, MOMus-Museum of Modern Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
2023 - Anniversary Screening, Der Greif, Les Rencontres d'Arles, France
2023 - Micro-Edition -Zines of the Zone, L'Avenir, Brest, France
2023 - Territórios, Exhibition, Museu da Imagem em Movimento (MIMO), Leiria, Portugal
2023 - XEROX PARADOX - Photobook Exhibition, Zines of the Zone, Rennes, France
2023 - Der Greif, 15th anniversary Exhibition, Pinakothek der Moderne and ZIRKA, Munich, Germany
2023 - Mythologia, Exhibition, Cryogénie, Strasbourg, France
2023 - Arte Fiera '23, Red Lab Gallery, Bologna, Italy
2023 - Arts Month, Exhibition - Gallery of the Municipality of Athens, Greece
2023 - Soprannaturale, Exhibition, Red Lab Gallery, Condominio, Milan, Italy
2023 - O Tempo dos Outros, Solo Exhibition, Adorna Galeria, Porto, Portugal
2022 - Matia mou Festival, Exhibition, Maison de quartier Madeleine Champ de Mars, Nantes, France
2022 - Landscape Stories, Photometria International Photography Festival, Ioannina, Greece
2022 - Expressions of Light, Exhibition, Photography Exhibition, Selene, Vedema, Santorini, Greece
2022 - Projection, Carmen Opera, Theater Saarbrücken, Germany
2022 - Photo Basel, International Art Fair, Switzerland
2022 - Darkness repeats, Zeto Art Gallery, Paris, France
2022 - Landscape Stories, MOMus - Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece
2022 - Rencontres de la jeune photographie internationale, exhibition, Nior, France
2022 - Transition, exhibition - Museum für Photographie Braunschweig, Germany
2021 - Known and Strange: Photographs from the Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
2021 - The Flyer Archive, Print & Friends, Zoetrope, Head2Head, Athens
2021 - Nuit Noire, exhibition, Chapelle XIV Gallery, Paris, France
2021 - MIA Fair X Edition, Milano, Italy
2021 - FOAM Talent, exhibition, Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands
2021 - Pack the Books Flat, Photobook Exhibition, Hermoupolis, Syros, Greece
2021 - Orientarsi con le Stelle, Museo della Città,Luigi Tonini, Italy
2021 - Encounters of Young International Photography, L'Îlot Sauvage, France
2020 - FOAM Talent, exhibition, EMOP, Kühlhaus, Berlin, Germany
2020 - Orientarsi con le Stelle, Red Lab Gallery, Milan, Italy
2020 - Verzasca Foto Festival, Sonogno, Switzerland
2020 - Audiovisual projection *demo, Zoetrope, Athens, Greece
2020 - Viewing Room, Galerie Florian Schönfelder, Berlin, Germany
2020 - PAN Exhibition, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2019 - Salon de la Photo, exhibition, Paris, France
2019 - Fotofever, solo exhibition, Paris, France
2019 - Art Yangtze 2019, Nanjing, China
2019 - Photo Kyiv 2019, Ukraine
2019 - PhotoESPAÑA, Official Section, Centro Cultural Galileo, Spain
2019 - PhotoESPAÑA, photobook exhibition, Spanish National Library’s, Spain
2019 - Batumi Photo Days 2019, Georgia
2019 - Zaporizhzhya Regional Museum, Ukraine
2019 - Embracing complexity and uncertainty, exhibition, PHmuseum
2019 - Plateau 034, photobook exhibition, Zoetrope, Athens, Greece
2019 - Sikinos VOL.II, the Athens Zine Bibliotheque & Zoetrope, Greece
2019 - Indian Photography Festival, photobook exhibition, India
2019 - Athens photo Festival, photobook exhibition, Benaki museum, Greece
2019 - Belfast Photo Festival, United Kingdom
2019 - MASLO Art Center, Khmelnytsky, Ukraine
2019 - #SKG Bridges - MOMus -Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece
2019 - Circulation(s) Festival 2019 edition, Cent Quatre, Paris, France
2019 - Beyond Boundaries exhibition, Aperture Gallery, New York, USA
2019 - Re-thinking environment, DL Gallery, Piraeus, Greece
2019 - Odesa Photo Days Festival, main exhibition, Odesa, Ukraine
2019 - Moving Museum of Photography, Baku, Azerbaijan
2018 - Emerging Talents festival 2018, Museum of Contemporary Art, Mattatoio Roma, Italy
2018 - International Felifa Prize, photobook exhibition, Argentina
2018 - Tbilisi Photo Festival, Georgia
2018 - Obscura Festival, Malaysia
2018 - Voies Off Award, Arles, France
2018 - Athens Photo Festival, main exhibition, Benaki museum, Greece
2018 - Book presentation, Istanbul Photobook Festival, Turkey
2018 - Month of Photography Los Angeles, USA
2018 - Festival de Fotografia de Tiradentes, Brasil
2017 - Indian Photography Festival, India
2017 - Unedited project, Thessaloniki, Greece
2017 - Photobookshow+, Brighton, England
2017 - Photobookshow, Saint Petersburg, Russia,
2017 - Istanbul Photobook Festival, Turkey
2017 - Found & Lost, Void and Float Gallery, Athens, Greece
2017 - Vermont Center for Photography, 2nd Juried photobook exhibition, USA
2017 - Volumes, Independent Art Publishing Fair, Zurich, Switzerland
2017 - Zum Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
2016 - International Association of Photography and Theory, Cyprus
2016 - Athens photo Festival, photobook exhibition, Benaki museum, Greece
2016 - Festival of Photography Maribor, Slovenia
2016 - Medphoto Festival, Screening, Rethimno, Greece
/ awards:
- Foam Talent Award 2020
- Artworks Artist Fellowship Program 2019 - 2020
- Nominated for Prix Pictet Award 2019
- Shortlisted for the Best Photobook of the year, PhotoESPAÑA 2019
- LensCulture Art Photography Awards 2018
- Emerging Talents festival 2018, Mattatoio Roma
- Nominated for Voies Off Awards 2018, Arles
- Finalist at International Felifa Prize 2018
- Honorable Mention, Gomma Grant 2018
/ curatorials:
- A glimpse of - Photobook Exhibition, Photometria Festival, Ioannina, Greece, 2023
- Blurring The Raster | Photobooks In Riso, Zoetrope, Athens, 2023
- Blind Spots, Photobook Exhibition, Medphoto Festival, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete, 2021
- Photobook Boom / The Greek Case, Photobiennale, Thessaloniki, 2021
- Pack the Books Flat, Photobook Exhibition, Hermoupolis, Syros, 2021
- New Archives, Photobook Exhibition, Medphoto Festival, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete, 2019
- Matter of time. An aquatic cartography. Time Takes Time Project 2019, A-Dash, Zoetrope, Athens, 2019
- Plateau 034 / An exploration of Greek self-published photobooks. Athens photo Festival, Zoetrope, Athens, 2019
/ residencies:
- Encounters of Young International Photography, Villa Pérochon, Niort, France 2021
- 5th Artists in Residence Program, Eagles Palace, Ouranoupoli, Greece 2021
/ presentations, workshops, and talks:
- Time to Blossom, A Photobook Workshop, Zoetrope, Athens, 2023
- Irida Vision, festival, Pofpa, Athens, Greece, 2023
- Centro Português de Fotografia, Porto, Portugal, 2023
- Time to Blossom, A Photobook Workshop, Zoetrope, Athens, 2022
- Photobook Workshop, MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, 2021
- Photobooks, Theory and Practice, Workshop, Hellenic Centre for Photography, Athens, 2021
- Time to Blossom, A Photobook Workshop, Zoetrope, Athens, 2020
- Book presentetion, Luminus Eye, Athens, 2020
- Days of Photography, Heraclion Crete 2019
- Photobook Workshop, Zoetrope, Athens 2018-2019
- Personal narratives - Stereosis Photography School, Thessaloniki 2019
- Book presentetion, Lefki - Photography and Cinema Club of Chania, Crete 2019
- Photobook Workshop, Comeet, Heraclion Crete 2018
- Photobook Workshop, Rethimno Photography Club, Crete 2017
/ interviews and articles:
- The British Journal of Photography
/ magazines and collaborative publications:
- Cercle Magazine 11: Mythology, Strasbourg, France, 2023
- Kappa Magazine, Athens, Greece, 2022
- Photo No-Nos, Aperture Foundation, New York, USA, 2021
- Grandmama's Print Magazine, Inception, Russia, 2021
- Animals, Henry Carroll, Abrams Image Editions, New York, USA, 2021
- British Journal of Photography, London, United Kingdom, 2021
- VOSTOK Magazine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2020
- Der Freitag newspaper, Berlin, Germany, 2020
- Photografos Magazine #265, Greece, 2020
- Ctype Magazine Volume #1, Bangkok, Thailand, 2020
- PAN II Publication, Paris, France, 2019
- UNSEEN Magazine #06, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2019
- Fisheye Magazine #35, Paris, France, 2019
- TransEurope #01, Madrid, Spain, 2019
- Photobook Vol.3, Paris, France, 2019
- GUP Magazine PSEUDO #59, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2019
- The Best of LensCulture, Volume 3, Netherlands 2019
- Dienacht Magazine #20, Germany, 2018
/ online magazines:
Fraction Magazine, Yogurt Magazine, Phases Magazine, CTypeMag Fisheye Magazine, Aint-Bad Magazine,
WIP Magazine, Don't take pictures, This isn't happiness, Dodho Magazine, GUP Magazine, Vvoice-ru,
The Angry Bat, Muybridge's Horse, Photocaptionist, Phroom Magazine, Photo eye, Dienacht Magazine,
Latentinage, Dirtyharrry blog, F-stop Magazine, Lifo, Whitelight, Photographer-ru, LensCulture, PHmuseum,
Juxtapoz Magazine, Clavoardiendo Magazine, Libération, Lense, Kiosk of Democracy, L'oeil de la photographie,
C41 Magazine, Paper Journal, LIFO Magazine, Fotonica, Altri Animali Magazine, SoSUE, STIR Magazine,
Musée Magazine, Capsule Circulation(s) x InFiné, Badtothebone Magazine
/ contact:
mail: info@yatrom.net
tel: +30 697 610 9355