PHOTOFOLIOS:26
THE SELECTED PROJECTS
Photopolis Festival is pleased to present the selected works from the Photofolios:26 open call.
The selected projects stood out for their artistic coherence and their ability to engage in dialogue with contemporary issues. This year’s selection reflects a wide range of themes, approaches, and aesthetic positions, forming a polyphonic body of work that highlights the dynamism and evolution of contemporary photographic expression.
The selected works works will be exhibited during the Festival’s main events in October 2026.
Curator: Eleni Mouzakiti
Photographer: Lila Zotou
Project title: A summer story of time and place
The images were taken during summer visits to a remote village and function as visual notes on absence, longing, and nostalgia, shaped by the visits of people who live abroad and return to the village.
Photographer: Morganna photography
Project title: Extraordinary Experiences.
Created in the streets near where I live, on daily walks, the images depict a dark exploration of the landscape interspersed with motifs of my family and of animals both, dead and alive. The resulting images come from an intuitive response to my surroundings, the images interplay with photography’s ability to make eternal what is fleeting.
Photographer: John Boaz
Project title: Rivers Of Living Water
This body of work is a selection of portraits from my ongoing series, Rivers Of Living Water, which seeks to
photograph a small element of the diverse faith of Christianity that is present within Britain today. Looking at different traditions, cultures, nationalities and beliefs within the Christian faith. This series is currently ongoing with many more elements to be photographed.
Photographer: Asterianna Arvaniti Apsokardou
Project title: Time Is The New Space
Time Is The New Space is a proposition on how we might exist: fluid, multidimensional, ephemeral, and at the same time timeless. It suggests experiencing life and death not as a beginning and an end, but as a continuous, pulsating experience — within the light of the flash, the texture of film, and the silence left behind by the gaze.
Photographer: Abdelrahman Alkahlout
Project title: Faces of Genocide: Gaza’s Silent Testimony
This photographic series documents the ongoing genocide against civilians in Gaza, where daily life
has been reduced to a constant struggle for survival. The images do not focus solely on death, but
on its aftermath: fear, loss, displacement, and endless waiting under bombardment.
The civilians portrayed here are not statistics.
Photographer: Isabelle Hayeur
Project title: Borderlands
In early 2024, I began documenting border areas of the United States, focusing mainly on southern California. At that time, the country was seeing a record number of illegal border crossings; the border patrols were clearly overwhelmed and the detention centres were inundated by the flood of migrants.
Photographer: Jorge Gutierrez Lucena
Project title: Where the Desert Forgets
Where the Desert Forgets is a photographic
project developed along the coastline of
Western Sahara under Moroccan control, fifty
years after Spain’s withdrawal from the
territory. The work examines how a new visual
and ideological layer has been imposed over
an erased one, through tourism, infrastructure
and narratives of progress.
Photographer: Anton Bou
Project title: It Started as Light… Ended in Shivers…
What remains when the markers of self collapse?
Shivers…
Since the day of breaking, fragments of self have scattered, merging with the pulse of the world. Through photography, they are gathered, shaped, reshaped — only to slip away again.