VASSILIS TRIANTIS
Vassilis was born in 1975 in Greece and is currently living in Amsterdam. He comes from a scientific background and after completing a doctorate in medical biology, he turned to photography which he now combines alongside his career in medical research.
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Apart from exploring personal histories and autobiographical experiences in his work, he is using his scientific background to build associations and reveal commonalities in the way biological and social systems behave and function. He is interested in how natural laws apply and are manifested in social mechanisms and patterns of behavior. Central themes in his work are the emerging properties of social groups that derive from congregation of individual members, the translation of evolution, mutations and change on a social level, and the effects of social environments on personal traits. His practice explores how photography can be used to reveal the human psyche and the unseen interface between social and natural systems.
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He has worked with the 7 fingers, the Ballet National de Marseille, and Dimitris Papaioannou.
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His work was included in The New Dutch Talent catalogue of 2017 from GUP magazine, and in the Encontros da Imagem 2017 festival program, while his project Point of View was shortlisted for FotoFilmic18. He was winner of the PhotoRomania 2020 Festival Portfolio review and he is a participating artist in the Futures Photography 2020 cycle.
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Tsundoku Art Book Fair, Dublin, IRELAND
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2023 FORMAT23 Festival "The Performing Photobook Market", Derby, UK
2022 The Icelandic Photography Festival 2022, National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavik, ICELAND
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2020 FUTURES digital festival 2020, ONLINE
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2019 LIFE FRAMER Edition V, Officine Fotografiche, Milan, ITALY
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2019 LIFE FRAMER Edition V, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
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2018 POINT OF VIEW, CLOUD Gallery, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
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2017 Galerie Sehnsucht, Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
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2017 EroticaMENTE, SATURA Art Gallery, Genova, ITALY
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2017 Encontros da Imagem, Braga, PORTUGAL
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2017 TRAUM - ZEIT, Galerie Noord, Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS
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2017 Art for KiKa, CLOUD Gallery, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
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2016 New Dutch Photography Talent 2017, 5&33, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
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2016 Art Gouda, Weeshuis, Gouda, THE NETHERLANDS
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2016 CosmoGrafie, VISIVA Gallery, Rome, ITALY
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2016 Art for refugees, CLOUD Gallery, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
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2014 CLOUD Gallery, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
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2014 Bimhuis 40 years of Interaction: Bimhuis / OBA, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
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2014 Aplenty Faces: Josilda da Conceicao Gallery, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
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2013 Layers: Josilda da Conceicao Gallery, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
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2013 SEE ME Gallery, New York, USA
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2013 Josilda da Conceicao Gallery, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
AWARDS
2023 Shortlisted at URBANAUTICA INSTITUTE AWARDS 2022
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2022 Special mention at HARMONY. WITH RAGUSA FOTO FESTIVAL 2022
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2022 Special mention at URBANAUTICA INSTITUTE AWARDS 2021
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2022 Shortlisted for the Belfast Photo Festival 2022 Book Awards
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2020 FUTURES PHOTOGRAPHY
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2020 PhotoRomania 2020 Festival Portfolio review
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2018 Finalist at THE FACE OF THE EARTH competition LIFE FRAMER
2018 Finalist at THE HUMAN BODY competition LIFE FRAMER
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2018 Shortlisted at FotoFilmic18
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2017 Finalist Discovery Awards Encontros da Imagem 2017
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2016 Finalist New Dutch Talent 2017
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2015 Honourable Mention at PX3 WHITE competition
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2015 Honourable Mention at Prix de la Photographie Paris
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2014 Honourable Mention at International Photography Awards (Fine-Art Nudes)
PUBLICATIONS
​2021 RESET, FUTURES Photography publication
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2021 FUTURES Photography, Interview
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2020 GUP New, Interview
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2018 Create! Magazine
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2018 THE HUMAN BODY, Online exhibition, LIFE FRAMER
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2018 THE FACE OF THE EARTH, Online exhibition, LIFE FRAMER
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2017 Dodho
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2017 Square Magazine
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2016 Der Greif
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