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Observe congratulates all the shortlisted photographers for the Under Construction competition. All these images will be exhibited as part of a public event on June 13, 2015 in Iserlohn, Germany, in a location that is "under construction". The winners will be selected from photos below and announced during this event and on this page. For more information, check the competition's flickr group.

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The final list of photographers selected for the Eastreet 3 exhibition and publication:

Ana Alexandrescu, Julia Autz, Siarhei Balai, Norman Behrendt, Marek Berezowski, Aliaksei Bibikau, Maciej Biedrzycki, M. Scott Brauer, Maksym Chychynskyi, Paolo Cirega, Paulina Czarnecka, Michał Czarnecki, Tomasz Desperak, Anargyros Drolapas, Nikolay Dutkin, Garry Efimov, David Gaberle, Maciej Gapiński, Emil Gataullin, George Gavrilakis, Florin Ghebosu, Reinis Hofmanis, Julie Hrudová, Eleni Ioannidou, Mikhail Izopeskov, Jadwiga Janowska, Adrian Jaszczak, Evgeny Kamenev, Christos Kapatos, Athanasios Karatzas, Zisis Kardianos, Andreas Katsakos, Ertugrul Kilic, Ivan Kleymenov, Evgeniya Kurtina, Monika Łopacka, George Marazakis, Galia Nazaryants, Maria Novoselova, Paul Osipoff, Oguz Ozkan, Haris Panagiotakopoulos, Marina Paulenka, Aleksandra Perović, Serge Poliakov, Anton Polyakov, Sergey Poteryaev, Kateryna Radchenko, Marta Rybicka, Juliya Skorobogatova, Stavros Stamatiou, Magdalena Świtek, Karol Szymkowiak, Hajdu Tamas, Denis Taraskin, Vasile Catalin Tomoiaga, Darya Trofimova, Aleksey Tudakov, Andrey Tulnov, Balázs Varga, Lukas Vasilikos, Troyan Vladimir, Tomasz Wiechnik, Natalia Wierzbicka, Krzysztof Wójcik, Yauhen Yerchak, Vadim Zamirovski, Spiros Zervoudakis, Maxim Zhuravko.

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2nd prize in the “Portfolio category”, in 21th National Photography Contest / Culture Club of Florina

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Within the context of Photographic Group of Philippiada Ka.dro meetings, I will present on Wednesday, March 18, 2015, my photographic projects “Photo diary” and “Family Album”.

Fotoistanbul 2014
Beşiktaş International Festival of Photography

The Besiktas Municipality of Istanbul is hosting and supporting this grand event from October 17- November 18, 2014 in the center of Istanbul’s busiest squares. Festival week of events is from October 18-24th.
FotoIstanbul is hosting over 50 exhibitions, 6 workshops, slideshows, lectures by artists, educators, designers, and editors, as well as free portfolio reviews.
http://fotoistanbul.org/

Slideshows: 170 slideshows in total for 12 screens throughout 3 venues.
Theme: Cities and Stories
Venues: Beşiktaş Barbaros Meydanı / Square  -  Yetimhane / Orphanage  -  Akaretler
Participation: Andreas katsakos - istanbul (3:00 minutes)

Curator: Andreas Katsakos, online photography magazine “fmag”
Production: fmag, "Contrast/Αντίθεση" Thessaloniki Photo Festival

Participants: Konstantinos Gdontakis, Antonis Damolis, Eleni Ioannidou, Kostas Karaiskos, Zisis Kardianos, Cristos Kapatos, Dimitris Makrygiannakis, Marianna Boltsi, Andreas Paradisopoulos, Dimitris Rapakousis, Eleni Rimantonaki, Maria Spyropoulou, Stavros Stamatiou, Pavlos Stavroulakis, Dionysis Fournogerakis, Tassos Chios, Apostolis Hondrogiannis

Exhibition Tour

• Everything is a road // at Livadia
  Duration: October 1 – 29, 2014
  Venue: Livadia Photography Club, Mpoufidou 32, Livadia 321 00
   
• Everything is a road // at Messolonghi
  Photo Festival Messolonghi // 3nd organization
  Inauguration: June 6, at 9:30 p.m.
  Duration: June 6 – 15, 2014
  Venue: Former draft board building, Messolonghi
   
• Everything is a road // at Thessaloniki
  "Contrast/Αντίθεση" Thessaloniki Photo Festival // 3nd organization - February/March 2014
  A conjunction of photography forces, under the lead of photography group “Photoporoi”
  Inauguration: February 8, at 6:00 p.m.
  Duration: February 8 – March 11, 2014
  Venue: Kounio Photography Store, 24 Komninon str, Louloudadika, (T:2310 271003), Thessaloniki

1st prize in national Photography competition with theme "child poverty and social exclusion" that was organized by Ierapetra's Municipality in 2010.

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Jury award in the Photo Contest "Photometria Awards 2010".
The festival "Photometria" took place for the second time in the city of Ioannina from 22 till 30 May 2010.
In 2010 the theme of the contest was "faces.

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1st prize in national competition of EISA Photo Maestro 2009-2010.
In 2009 the theme of the competition was ''Water'.

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1st prize in the “B&W Category”, in 14th National Photography Competition that was organized by the SY.MO.F.E. (Association of Motorcycle, Photography and Exploration).
The theme of the competition was 'man & motorcycle'.

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