Yannis Karpouzis

Yannis Karpouzis is an Athens and Reykjavik based artist working with photography, filmaking and text. He has studied to the Technical university of Athens, Copenhagen’s DTU, the Fine Art School of Athens (Master of Fine Arts) and the Architecture school of Athens (Master in cultural theory). He has been awarded the Newcomer film-maker award by the Greek Film Center in 22nd Thessaloniki film festival for the hybrid genre essay film, “Nikos Karouzos: poems on the tape recorder”. His book “The paper time is over”, has been shortlisted for Greek state’s youth literature award and has received the literature youth award by “Anagnostis” magazine. His long term photographic project “Parallel Crisis” which narates the story of immobilized time during the crisis has received the Descubrimientos prize in PHotoEspana 2015 and the Portfolio Review Prize in Athens Photo Festival 2016. His works have been presented to major Greek and international institutions (New museum of New York – Benaki Museum, Rencontres d’Arles, Contemporary art museum of Thessaloniki, Noorderlicht Photo Festival, PHotoEspana, Magnum agency, MedPhoto festival, Photo-Beijing). He is a member of the Association of Icelandic Artists (SIM).