Panos + Mary

bio:

Panos Charalampidis and Mary Chairetaki are a Greek artist duo, living in Crete. Mary holds an MA degree and Panos has a PhD. They are intrigued by the potential of photographic art to act as a research tool that integrates the inherent evidential nature of the medium, with emotions and the human perspective. Their artistic work combines a strong personal approach with that of documentary and conceptual practices. They like to be committed to long-term projects, immersing in their subject’s world. They practice photography in order to understand.

• Panos Charalampidis:

2008 # PhD in Environmental Engineering, Department of Environment, University of the Aegean.

2000 # B.Sc. in School of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

• Mary Chairetaki:

2009 # M.A. in Graphic Arts - Multimedia, School of Applied Arts, Hellenic Open University

2002 # B.Sc. in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic School of the University of Patras

• Exhibitions / Projections:

2024-9 # Group exhibition "(Im)possible worlds" with images from “Inherently Unpredictable and ReassuringlyExpectable", PEP (Photographic Exploration Project), Mulhouse Photo Biennial, LA KunstTURM, Europe Tower,Mulhouse, France.

2024-4 # Group exhibition "landscape stories", "Cornucopia" and "Gardens of Oblivion", MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Municipal Art Gallery of Chania, Crete, Greece

2023-8: # “The Invisible Crete” - Group exhibition, curated by Maria Choulaki. Gallery of Viannos, Crete, Greece

2023-2: # Group exhibition “Exposure 2023 International Open Call”  with “Inherently Unpredictable and Reassuringly Expectable", curated by Michèle Pearson Clarke in Contemporary Calgary, Canada.

2022-12 # Group exhibition “Artful Partners” with “Mother Motif” curated by Dr. Thalia Vrachopoulos, The Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, New York

2022-9 # Group exhibition "landscape stories" group exhibition, "Cornucopia" and "Gardens of Oblivion", Photometria in cooperation with MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Ioannina, Greece

2022-9 # Group exhibition "Rediscovered Wonder", Special mention artists, Photo Open Up Festival, Padua, Italy

2022-9 # Projection "Do you feel like you’re in the eye of a hurricane?", Screening of competition finalists’ works, Nida Symposium 2022, Nida, Lithuania

2022-7 # Group exhibition "Harmony. A mutual understanding", Book “Mother Motif”, Ragusa Foto Festival, Ragusa, Italy

2022-6 # "Persephone’s Edge" exhibition curated by Laura Moya at the Main Exhibition of Athens Photo Festival 2022, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece

2022-3 # Group exhibition "landscape stories", curated by Hercules Papaioannou, MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece

2022-3 # Group exhibition "AFTERWORD", curator Small Talk Collective, Strange Paradise Gallery, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, USA

2021-10 # "The Curated Fridge Autumn 2021 Show", guest curator Christa Dix, Associate Director at the Griffin Museum of Photography

2021-10 # Photo book group exhibition, "Cornucopia", "Photobook boom/The Greek case", Photobiennale 2021, Thessaloniki, Greece

2021-10 # Pop-up projection, "Cornucopia", Light Conversation vol. 2, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, USA

2021-9 # Solo exhibition, "Inherently Unpredictable and Reassuringly Expectable", Encontros da Imagem, Braga, Portugal

2020-9 # Group exhibition, "mediterranean flux", curated by Chris Doulgeris, Naxos, Greece

2020-8 # Group exhibition, "Island K and the Theory of the South", curated by Eirini Linardaki, Gallery of Viannos, Crete, Greece

2020-1 # Group exhibition, La Nuit des idées: Le mal-être - What keeps us awake, curated by Eirini Linardaki, Natural History Museum, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

2020-1 # Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards Winners Exhibition, "Cornucopia", Aperture Gallery in Chelsea, New York2019-9 # Fresh Eyes: images of "Cornucopia", projection at Night of Photography during the Tbilisi Photo Festival 2019

2019-9 # Solo exhibition "Cornucopia", Restaurant Le Venetian, Vals les bains, CHAMBRE07, Festival Photographique en Ardèche

2019-9 # "Cornucopia" video projection, Sonogno, Switzerland, Verzasca Foto Festival 2019

2019-6 # Group exhibition, "Forgotten Places", St Annes square, Belfast Photo Festival

2019-4 # Group exhibition, "The Provinces", curated by Kostas Ioannidis, Nikol Leventi and The Provinces team, TAF / the art foundation, Athens.

2019-2 # Group exhibition, "Apocalypse: Then and Now", curated by Dr. Thalia Vrachopoulos, The Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, New York

2019-2 # Group exhibition, "Re-thinking environment", curated by Nina Kasssianou, DL gallery, Athens

2018-11 # "Inherently Unpredictable and Reassuringly Expectable" video projection during GESTE 2018 Binary/Non-Binary

2018-4 # Group exhibition, selected artists after the international open call "Links", San José Foto 2018, curated by Nicolás Janowski

2017-12 # "Inherently Unpredictable and Reassuringly Expectable" during “ANTHROPOCENIC MINDSCAPES” projection, Angkor Photo Festival 2017. Video curated by Anshika Warma

2017-11 # Group exhibition, "Crete: Stories from the Edge", Medphoto Festival 2017-18, curated by Marinos Tsagkarakis, EFEK, Heraklion

2016-11 # Solo exhibition, "second chance", curated by E. Mouzakiti and L. Papanikolatos, Monitor Fest, Cultural and Conference Centre of Heraklion, Heraklion

2015-6 # Solo exhibition, "second chance", Athens Photo Festival 2015 curated by E. Mouzakiti and L. Papanikolatos, Fouar Gallery

2014-8 # Solo exhibition, "Plateau" Cultural Community Centre of st. Konstantinos , Lasithi Plateau

2014-4 # Solo exhibition, "Conceptions", EFE, Mytilini

• Publications / others:

2024-5 # One of our portraits was in the top ten for the see:zeen first Portrait Award.

2023-7 # Images of our work in Lassithi plateau are part of the photobook “The Invisible Crete”, edited by Maria Choulaki and published with the support of the Region of Crete and the French Institute.

2022-8 #  " Inherently Unpredictable and Reassuringly Expectable" shortlisted for the PhEST 2022, Monopoli, Italy

2022-7 # “Cornucopia” featured online at telex, Hungary

2022-4 # "Mother Motif" published online at see-zeen magazine issue #4

2022-2 # Among the Spotlight Photographers at PhotoVogue

2021-11 # "Inherently Unpredictable and Reassuringly Expectable" shortlisted for the 2021 Urbanautica Institute "WHAT'S THE URGENCY?" Open Call.

2021-8 # "Mother Motif" published online at Click Magazine ISSE 78

2021-7 # "Cornucopia" shortlisted for the International Photography Exhibition IPE 163 of the Royal Photographic Society

2021-6 # "Cornucopia" featured online at Grandmama’s Print

2021-6 # "second chance" shortlisted for the individual exhibitions at PHmuseum Days 2021

2021-4 # "Inherently Unpredictable and Reassuringly Expectable" shortlisted for the Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award 2021, conceptual series

2021-3 # "Cornucopia" shortlisted for the 2020 Urbanautica Institute Annual Awards

2020-12 # "Cornucopia" is featured online at the The Telos Society, curated by Eleni Mouzakiti

2020-12 # "Cornucopia" is featured online at the PHmuseum editors’ top projects for 2020

2020-11 # "Cornucopia" is featured online at International Photography Magazine

2020-11 # "Mother Motif" won the Grand Prix at the IMA next "Co-exist"

2020-11 # "Cornucopia" finalist at Talent of the Year 2020 of International Photography Grant

2020-10 # "Mother Motif" shortlisted for the FORMAT21 International Photography Festival

2020-9 # Images of Lasithi plateau are part of the presentation material of the plateau for the UNESCO’s "Intangible Cultural Heritage" catalogue

2020-8 # Dodho online interview

2020-5 # Online interview at Photologio

2020-4 # "Cornucopia" zine, Field Notes (No 05), published by Another Place Press

2020-4 # "Cornucopia”" shortlisted for the PHmuseum 2020 Photography Grant

2020-4 # "Cornucopia" in the final 20 list of Guernsey Photography Festival 2020

2020-3 # "Cornucopia" featured at Aegean Airlines Blue Magazine Issue 82 (March - April 2020)

2020-1 # "Inherently Unpredictable and Reassuringly Expectable" included in the La Nuit des idées printed edition: Le mal-être - What keeps us awake

2020-1 # "Cornucopia" among the winning projects of The Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards

2019-10 # "Gardens of Oblivion" featured online at dodho magazine

2019-10 # "Cornucopia" as winner of the best series category is included in the publication of "Europa | the european photoawards"

2019-10 # Shortlisted for the special edition of GUP Magazine #63, as part of the 2019 Critical Mass Call

2019-10 # GUP magazine online article

2019-8 # Among the 200 finalists of Critical Mass

2019-8 # GUP 62– Periphery issue

2019-8 # "Cornucopia" winner of the best series category in Europa - The European Photoawards

2019-8 # "Cornucopia" featured online at YET magazine

2019-6 # "Cornucopia" won the GUP Editorial Award as FRESH EYES Talents 

2019-6 #  "Cornucopia" featured online online at dodho

2019-6 # "second chance" book, in " Plateau 034 / An exploration of Greek self-published photobooks" excibition, part of APhF:19 Satellite Program

2019-6 # "Cornucopia" featured online at dodho

2019-5 # "Cornucopia" 3rd place for the 2019 Verzasca Foto Award, Nera di Verzasca prize

2019-4 # "Cornucopia" among the winning projects of the Belfast Photo Festival Open Submission 2019

2019-4 # "Cornucopia" included in the first edition of FRESH EYES, ISBN: 9789082483390

2019-2 # "Apocalypse: Then and Now", Exhibition catalogue, The Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, New York, ISBN: 9781387535149

2019-2 # "Cornucopia" featured online at Ignant

2019-2 # "Cornucopia" shortlisted for the GOMMA GRANT 2018

2019-1 # "Cornucopia" featured online at Aint-Bad

2019-1 # "Cornucopia" featured online at Another Place

2018-12 # "Cornucopia" featured online at Velvet eyes

2018-7 # "Gardens of oblivion" (plateau) receives honourable mention at MONOVISIONS AWARDS 2018

2018-5 # "Inherently Unpredictable and Reassuringly Expectable" featured at PhotogrVphy  

2018-3 # "Cornucopia" featured online at New Landscape Photography

2018-2 # "Cornucopia" in the final 50 list of Guernsey Photography Festival 2018 international photography competition

2017-11 # A photograph from project "cornucopia" was featured during November Der Greif Guest Room online exhibition curated by Susan Bright

2017-11 # "Cornucopia" was among the top 100 submissions shortlisted for the final round of reviews of the 2017 Tokyo International Photography Competition

2017-10 # "Inherently Unpredictable and Reassuringly Expectable" nominee, PHOTOGRVPHY GRANT

2017-4 # "second chance" featured online at Phosmag

2017-3 # "Cornucopia" featured online at Ignant

2017-3 # "Inherently Unpredictable and Reassuringly Expectable" shortlisted candidate, Grand Prix Images Vevey 2017/2018

2017-2 # "Cornucopia" featured online at Phosmag

2017-1 # “plateau” featured online at Graphicart-News

2016-10 # “second chance” book featured at Self Publish Be Happy

2016-7 # "Cornucopia" featured online at Fraction magazine

2016-6 # "second chance" book, APhF:16 Photobook Exhibition, Benaki Museum, Athens

2016-4 # Self Publication of "second chance" book

2016-2 # Featured online at Whitelight Rooms

2015-12 # "Second Chance" featured online at GUP MAGAZINE

2015-6 # Catalogue of Month of European Photography, Athens, ISBN: 9786185183004

2012 # Panoptikon 13×13 project catalog, ART/IF/ACT, Greece

2011-6 # "Monitor" magazine, coverpage, issue 031, Greece

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