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Yannis Kontos
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Name
Yannis Kontos
Awards
World Press Photo Award for Contemporary Issues
Dromoi ert yannis kontos documentary biography
Yannis Kontos (Greek: Γιάννης Κόντος) (born 1971) is a Greek freelance photojournalist. Kontos has covered a variety of major events, wars and conflicts around the world and had his work published in newspapers, magazines, and books.
Yannis Kontos was born in Ioannina, Greece in 1971.
From 1988 to 1994, Kontos studied at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Science of the University of Thessaloniki. In 1996, he continued studying photography and in 2001, he graduated from the Department of Photography of the School of Graphic Arts and Art Studies at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens. In 2001, after an international competition, he attended the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He made postgraduate studies obtaining a Master of Arts in photographic journalism from the University of Westminster in London, on a Greek state scholarship.
From 1998 to 2000, Kontos worked as a photojournalist for the French agency Sygma. He continued working with the Gamma agency from 2001 to 2002. In 2002, he began working with Polaris Images, producing photojournalism and feature work.
Publications
Possible/Impossible Aporias. Kastaniotis Editions, 2007. ISBN 978-960-03-4386-1. Foreword by John G. Morris, texts by Penelope Petsini and Thanassis Moutsopoulos.
Red Utopia. Photographs from North Korea. Kastaniotis Editions, 2007. Text by Thanassis Moutsopoulos. ISBN 978-960-03-4350-2.
Solo exhibitions
Kabul Photographers Photosynkyria, Thessaloniki, 2004.
Yannis Kontos: Photojournalist
Kythera Photographic Encounters, Kythira 2005.
Thessaloniki International Festival of Photography (Photosynkyria), Thessaloniki, 2005.
12th International Month of Photography, Athens, 2005.
Foundation for Thracian Art and Tradition, Xanthi, 2005.
US/Mexico Border Crossing - Canon Exhibition Hall, Visa Pour l’image, Perpignan 2006.
Possible / Impossible: Aporias, Frissiras Museum, Athens 2007.
North Korea: Red Utopia, Frissiras Museum, Athens 2007.
Group exhibitions
The Chronicle of Destruction Photosynkyria, Thessaloniki, 2000.
Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History
Bellevue Arts Museum, Washington 2000.
PHotoEspaña, Madrid 2000.
Identity 8th Joop Swart Masterclass exhibition, Nederlands Foto Institute, Rotterdam 2001.
My Brother’s Image Photosynkyria, Thessaloniki, 2002.
The Human Condition: After Effects Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, 2003.
World Press Photo Exhibition World Press Photo, international itinerant exhibition in 100 cities, 2006.
