Yorgos Yatromanolakis was born in Zaros, Crete. He studied Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Photography at Stereosis School, and is currently attending the MA program Photography: Research and Methodology at the Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts, University of West Attica. 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.
/ Books:
2025 Farewell to the Night, IIKKI
2019 The Splitting of the Chrysalis & the Slow Unfolding of the Wings, Artist Edition, Zoetrope Athens
2018 The Splitting of the Chrysalis & the Slow Unfolding of the Wings, Void
2016 Not Provided, Self-published
____ Roadblock to Normality, Self-published
/ Exhibitions:
2025 InCadaqués, Exhibition, La Kabine - Centre de l'Image, Arles, France
____ From Representation to Self-Representation, Group Exhibition, pavilion A Mitra, Lisbon, Portugal
____ Invisible to the Naked Eye, Exhibition - Budapest Photography Festival, Hungary
____ Coup de coer, InCadaqués, Exhibition, LE NEUF Gallery, Paris, France
____ Abandoned Cartographies and Other Odd Hours, Exhibition, CAN Gallery, Athens, Greece
2024 H2H art festival, Exhibition, Associate Gallery, Reykjavik Iceland
____ Fotofestiwal - International Festival of Photography, Lodz, Poland
____ Kolga - International Photo Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia
____ Festival Gnafala, Folk Art Museum, Soufli, Greece
____ Lecture, Wydawnictwo Archiwum Słońca, Wrocław, Poland
____ Landscape Stories, Municipal Art Gallery, Chania, Greece
____ Soprannaturale Piacenza, Exhibition, Collettivo Tiff, Milano, Italy
____ Da representação à auto-representação, Exhibition, Adorna Galeria, Porto, Portugal
____ Liminality, Exhibition, Citronne Gallery, Athens, Greece
2023 International Contemporary Photo Festival Incadaqués, Catalonia, Spain
____ Bonjour Art Book Fair, Exhibition, Dalian, China
____ Photobiennale, MOMus-Museum of Modern Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
____ Anniversary Screening, Der Greif, Les Rencontres d'Arles, France
____ Micro-Edition -Zines of the Zone, L'Avenir, Brest, France
____ Territórios, Exhibition, Museu da Imagem em Movimento (MIMO), Leiria, Portugal
____ XEROX PARADOX - Photobook Exhibition, Zines of the Zone, Rennes, France
____ Der Greif, 15th anniversary Exhibition, Pinakothek der Moderne and ZIRKA, Munich, Germany
____ Mythologia, Exhibition, Cryogénie, Strasbourg, France
____ Arte Fiera '23, Red Lab Gallery, Bologna, Italy
____ Arts Month, Exhibition - Gallery of the Municipality of Athens, Greece
____ Soprannaturale, Exhibition, Red Lab Gallery, Condominio, Milan, Italy
____ O Tempo dos Outros, Solo Exhibition, Adorna Galeria, Porto, Portugal
2022 Matia mou Festival, Exhibition, Maison de quartier Madeleine Champ de Mars, Nantes, France
____ Landscape Stories, Photometria International Photography Festival, Ioannina, Greece
____ Expressions of Light, Exhibition, Photography Exhibition, Selene, Vedema, Santorini, Greece
____ Projection, Carmen Opera, Theater Saarbrücken, Germany
____ Photo Basel, International Art Fair, Switzerland
____ Darkness repeats, Zeto Art Gallery, Paris, France
____ Landscape Stories, MOMus - Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece
____ Rencontres de la jeune photographie internationale, exhibition, Nior, France
____ Transition, exhibition - Museum für Photographie Braunschweig, Germany
2021 Known and Strange: Photographs from the Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
____ The Flyer Archive, Print & Friends, Zoetrope, Head2Head, Athens
____ Nuit Noire, exhibition, Chapelle XIV Gallery, Paris, France
____ MIA Fair X Edition, Milano, Italy
____ FOAM Talent, exhibition, Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands
____ Pack the Books Flat, Photobook Exhibition, Hermoupolis, Syros, Greece
____ Orientarsi con le Stelle, Museo della Città,Luigi Tonini, Italy
____ Encounters of Young International Photography, L'Îlot Sauvage, France
2020 FOAM Talent, exhibition, EMOP, Kühlhaus, Berlin, Germany
____ Orientarsi con le Stelle, Red Lab Gallery, Milan, Italy
____ Verzasca Foto Festival, Sonogno, Switzerland
____ Audiovisual projection *demo, Zoetrope, Athens, Greece
____ Viewing Room, Galerie Florian Schönfelder, Berlin, Germany
____ PAN Exhibition, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2019 Salon de la Photo, exhibition, Paris, France
____ Fotofever, solo exhibition, Paris, France
____ Art Yangtze 2019, Nanjing, China
____ Photo Kyiv 2019, Ukraine
____ PhotoESPAÑA, Official Section, Centro Cultural Galileo, Spain
____ PhotoESPAÑA, photobook exhibition, Spanish National Library’s, Spain
____ Batumi Photo Days 2019, Georgia
____ Zaporizhzhya Regional Museum, Ukraine
____ Embracing complexity and uncertainty, exhibition, PHmuseum
____ Plateau 034, photobook exhibition, Zoetrope, Athens, Greece
____ Sikinos VOL.II, the Athens Zine Bibliotheque & Zoetrope, Greece
____ Indian Photography Festival, photobook exhibition, India
____ Athens photo Festival, photobook exhibition, Benaki museum, Greece
____ Belfast Photo Festival, United Kingdom
____ MASLO Art Center, Khmelnytsky, Ukraine
____ #SKG Bridges - MOMus -Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece
____ Circulation(s) Festival 2019 edition, Cent Quatre, Paris, France
____ Beyond Boundaries exhibition, Aperture Gallery, New York, USA
____ Re-thinking environment, DL Gallery, Piraeus, Greece
____ Odesa Photo Days Festival, main exhibition, Odesa, Ukraine
____ Moving Museum of Photography, Baku, Azerbaijan
2018 Emerging Talents festival 2018, Museum of Contemporary Art, Mattatoio Roma, Italy
____ International Felifa Prize, photobook exhibition, Argentina
____ Tbilisi Photo Festival, Georgia
____ Obscura Festival, Malaysia
____ Voies Off Award, Arles, France
____ Athens Photo Festival, main exhibition, Benaki museum, Greece
____ Book presentation, Istanbul Photobook Festival, Turkey
____ Month of Photography Los Angeles, USA
____ Festival de Fotografia de Tiradentes, Brasil
2017 Indian Photography Festival, India
____ Unedited project, Thessaloniki, Greece
____ Photobookshow+, Brighton, England
____ Photobookshow, Saint Petersburg, Russia,
____ Istanbul Photobook Festival, Turkey
____ Found & Lost, Void and Float Gallery, Athens, Greece
____ Vermont Center for Photography, 2nd Juried photobook exhibition, USA
____ Volumes, Independent Art Publishing Fair, Zurich, Switzerland
____ Zum Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
2016 International Association of Photography and Theory, Cyprus
____ Athens photo Festival, photobook exhibition, Benaki museum, Greece
____ Festival of Photography Maribor, Slovenia
____ Medphoto Festival, Screening, Rethimno, Greece
/ Awards:
2020 Foam Talent Award
____ Artworks Artist Fellowship Program
2019 Nominated for Prix Pictet Award 2019
____ Shortlisted for the Best Photobook of the year, PhotoESPAÑA
2018 LensCulture Art Photography Awards
____ Emerging Talents festival 2018, Mattatoio Roma
____ Nominated for Voies Off Awards, Arles
____ Finalist at International Felifa Prize
____ Honorable Mention, Gomma Grant
/ Curatorials:
2025 Inflorescences, Collective Book, Zoetrope Athens
2024 Dear Eastern Europe, | Photobook Exhibition, Athens Photo Festival, Zoetrope, Athens
2023 A glimpse of - Photobook Exhibition, Photometria Festival, Ioannina, Greece,
____ Blurring The Raster | Photobooks In Riso, Zoetrope, Athens
2021 Blind Spots, Photobook Exhibition, Medphoto Festival, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete
____ Photobook Boom / The Greek Case, Photobiennale, Thessaloniki
____ Pack the Books Flat, Photobook Exhibition, Hermoupolis, Syros
2019 New Archives, Photobook Exhibition, Medphoto Festival, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete
____ Matter of time. An aquatic cartography. Time Takes Time Project 2019, A-Dash, Zoetrope, Athens
____ Plateau 034 / An exploration of Greek self-published photobooks. Athens photo Festival, Zoetrope, Athens
/ Residencies:
2021 Encounters of Young International Photography, Villa Pérochon, Niort, France 2021
____ 5th Artists in Residence Program, Eagles Palace, Ouranoupoli, Greece 2021
/ Instructing and lecturing:
2025 Time to Blossom, A Photobook Workshop, Zoetrope, Athens
____ Unfolding Narratives Lab - Hellenic Centre for Photography (HCP)
____ Guest lecture for the Hellenic Centre for Photography (HCP) educational program
2023 Time to Blossom, A Photobook Workshop, Zoetrope, Athens
____ Lecturer for “Mystery 65 Reframe Elefsina”, Elefsina, Greece
2021 Photobook Workshop, MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography
____ Time to Blossom, A Photobook Workshop, Zoetrope, Athens
____ Photobooks, Theory and Practice, Workshop, Hellenic Centre for Photography, Athens
2018 Photobook Workshop, Comeet, Heraclion Crete
____ Photobook Workshop, Rethimno Photography Club, Crete
2011 Annual photography workshop at ARGO – Alternative Therapeutic Program for Dependent Individuals
____ Photography workshop leader at the Aristotle University Photography Club, Thessaloniki
/ Presentations and talks:
2024 Talk for Sun Archive Books x Zoetrope Athens, Wroclaw Poland
2023 Talk for Photometria Festival, Culture Centre, D. Chatzis, Ioannina, Greece
____ Irida Vision, festival, Pofpa, Athens, Greece
____ Centro Português de Fotografia, Porto, Portugal
2020 Book presentetion, Luminus Eye, Athens
2019 Days of Photography, Heraclion Crete
____ Personal narratives - Stereosis Photography School, Thessaloniki
____ Book presentetion, Lefki - Photography and Cinema Club of Chania, Crete
/ Printed magazines and collaborative publications:
2025 One Billion ISO magazine, Issue #1, Poland
2023 Cercle Magazine 11: Mythology, Strasbourg, France
2022 Kappa Magazine, Athens, Greece
2021 Photo No-Nos, Aperture Foundation, New York, USA
____ Grandmama's Print Magazine, Inception, Russia
____ Animals, Henry Carroll, Abrams Image Editions, New York, USA
____ British Journal of Photography, London, United Kingdom
2020 VOSTOK Magazine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
____ Der Freitag newspaper, Berlin, Germany
____ Photografos Magazine #265, Greece
____ Ctype Magazine Volume #1, Bangkok, Thailand
2019 PAN II Publication, Paris, France
____ UNSEEN Magazine #06, Amsterdam, Netherlands
____ Fisheye Magazine #35, Paris, France
____ TransEurope #01, Madrid, Spain
____ Photobook Vol.3, Paris, France
____ GUP Magazine PSEUDO #59, Amsterdam, Netherlands
____ The Best of LensCulture, Volume 3, Netherlands
2018 Dienacht Magazine #20, Germany
/ Interviews and articles:
2019 The British Journal of Photography
2018 LensCulture
/ 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, SoSUE,
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,
STIR Magazine, Musée Magazine, Capsule Circulation(s) x InFiné, Badtothebone Magazine
/ Contact:
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