Nominators
Vangelis Ioakimidis
Vangelis Ioakimidis was born in Thessaloniki in 1962. He studied Photography at the department of Cinema and Audiovisual - sector of photography image, in the University Paris VIII. He got two master degrees, on the Economy of Culture and on the Civilization and New Technologies in the Leonard de Vinci-Nanterre University and in the Aegean University respectively.
Ioakimidis worked in the publishing houses of "Contrejour", "Camera Ιnternational", as well as in the European Editions "C.E.C" in Paris (from 1985 to 1995) as manager of production and international editions.
He represented, as General Commissionaire, the Directorate of Fine Arts, of the Greek Ministry of Culture, in the Biennale of Nice, which was dedicated to the Greek photography from 1850 till nowadays. He was the curator of many exhibitions, such as: Attitudes and Aspects about Greek Photography, Religion's spirit, Family's spirit and Globalization's spirit, for the Photography Center of Skopelos, where he was the Artistic Director (2000 -2005). In the 2004 Athens Olympics he was the curator of photography of all outdoor exhibitions. Since 2006 he has been the Director of the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography.
