George Georgiou
George Georgiou was born in London in 1961. He was introduced to photography when he took an‘O level course at school as an extra subject. He went on take study photography on a part-time basis at Sir John Cass school of art, and in 1987 he received a BA Honours in photography, film and video arts from the Polytechnic of Central London (University of Westminster) After teaching photography part-time he decided to pursue photography full time.
In 1999 George joined Panos Pictures in London and began to work exclusively on his own long-term projects. He has photographed extensively in the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Turkey, living and working in Serbia, Greece and Turkey from 1999 to 2009. Work from this period resulted in the acclaimed book, “Fault Line/Turkey/East/West” 2010.
“Fault Lines” has been exhibited many times internationally and was included in the prestigious “New Photography 2011″ exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
On his return to London, he started work on a major project about London. His book “Last Stop” photographed London through the windows of its famous double-decker buses was self-published in 2015.
In 2016 Georgiou began a year-long project supported by the NYT’s magazine to photograph American communities viewing parades as a means to create a group portrait of Americans, an America of multiple identities, where people stand together, in a company of strangers.
The work resulted in the book, Americans Parade, which was short-listed for the Aperture/Paris Photo-best photobook 2019.
Throughout this time Georgiou has taught numerous workshops.
Several institutions and private collectors, including the Museum of Modern Art, NY and the Elton John collection, collect Georgiou’s work.
George’s work has appeared in magazines across the world, including the NYT’s, New Yorker, Newsweek, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Financial Times, Geo, Stern, Le Monde and highly respected photo journals including the BJP and Apert
EXHIBITIONS:
Americans Parade, Photo 2021 in Melbourne, Australia, 2021
Americans Parade, ICP, NYC, USA, 2020
Americans Parade, QPN festival, Nantes, France, 2020
Americans Parade, Walker Evans Revisited, Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany, 2020
Last Stop, Istanbul Photobook Festival. Turkey, 2017
Last Stop, Le Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse, France, 2015
Turkey/Fault Line/East/West, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, USA, 2003
Turkey/Fault Line/East/West, New Photography, MoMA, NYC, USA, 2011
AWARDS INCLUDE:
2010 The British Journal of Photography project prize for Shadow of the Bear: Georgia and Ukraine
2009 Selected for the Taylor Wessling prize exhibition, National Portrait Gallery
2008 Selected for the Taylor Wessling prize exhibition, National Portrait Gallery
2005 World Press Photo Art Stories, “Flour Wars”
2004 Pictures of the Year International first prize spot News, “Istanbul Bombs”
2003 World Press Photo Daily Life Stories, “The Serbs”
BOOKS:
George has produced 3 monographs
Americans Parade, 2019
Last Stop, 2015
Fault Lines/Turkey/East/West 2010
His work is included in the following books
Humans; Photographs That Make You Think, Abrams, 2021
Photo No-No’s. Aperture, 2021
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Thames and Hudson, 2019
The Photographer’s Playbook, Aperture 2014.
Photography Today, edited by Mark Durden, Phaidon, 2014
Street Photography Now, Thames and Hudson, 2010
Contact Sheet, Ammo Books, 2010
