ANTONIOS PASVANTIS
Antonis Pasvantis is a professor of photography at the SAEK of Kavala Northern Greece., where he is based. He studied photography at Leica Akademie of Athens and he started his photographic journey as a staff photographer in Greek photonews agencies. His work from the refugee crisis has been exhibited at Thessaloniki Museum of Photography in a group exhibition in 2016 and traveled with the Hellenic Parliament Foundation to Brussels and Adelaide. For the last ten years he has been working on the Greek-Turkish border in the Evros region.
In his last project that was competed recently, titled “Evros: Life on the Shores’, Antonis Pasvantis observes how Greek-Turkish borders affect the lives of vulnerable people in combination with migratory flows and the coexistence of different religious populations. Pasvantis presents a body of photographs that not only maps the extreme beauty of the landscapes, but also captures the entire human geography of the wider Evros region. His story documents the harmonious coexistence between Christians, Suni minority in Greece and the last remaining Alevi Muslim community in Greece. At the same time, he captures border crossings and police chasing that reflect the painful reality of immigrants seeking a better tomorrow in the region.
Pasvantis story from Evros region, an artistic work and historical document at the same time, has been published by Potamos Publications under the title Evros: Life on the Shores. Images from Evros have been exhibited in various international festivals and have been nominated for awards at the Festival Etica di Lodi 2020, Photo Israel 2020, and Directlook Moscow 2020. He is the winner of the Athens Photo World 2023 award supported by the Greek Ministry of Culture and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
Book Publications
2024 Pasvantis, Antonis. Evros: Life on the Shores, Potamos Publishing