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Photographer
Panos Kefalos
Saints.
Gomma Photography Grant 2016 Winners

Gomma Photography Grant 2016

Saints.

Photographer

Panos Kefalos

Saints.

14 Oct, 2022

Three years in the making, ‘saints’ is a personal journey in the private universe of a group of Afghan children living in Athens. Working very closely with them photographer Panos Kefalos explores their everyday life, their games and their dreams and documents the interaction and influence of the adult world (with its overtones of war and violence) and the hardships they have to endure, constantly putting their innocence to the test.


About the photographer

Panos Kefalos

Panos Kefalos was born in Athens in 1990. He has studied cinematography at the Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos and photography at I.E.K. AKMI. He has collaborated, as cameraman and director of photography, in independent short films that were selected and awarded by international film festivals in Greece and abroad As a photographer he presented his first personal exhibition, "Entropia", in 2011. He has afterwards taken part in many group exhibitions and he was selected in 2013 to be presented at the Athens Photo Festival in the Young Greek Photographers section. In 2014 he was shortlisted for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award. In November of 2012 he started his project "Saints" and it was completed in the end of 2015. In 2016, he published his first book, "Saints," supported by Fabrica. Saints got selected by Jurors' picks for the LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2016.