VASSILIS TRIANTIS
Vassilis was born in Greece and is currently living in Amsterdam. He comes from a scientific background and after completing a doctorate in medical biology, and following a career in medical research, he turned to photography which he practices now combines as an autodidact.
His practice delves into the realms of personal histories, autobiographical experiences, and how these form social landscapes. He is exploring how natural laws apply and are manifested in social mechanisms and patterns of behaviour, the emerging properties of social groups that derive from congregation of individuals, and the effects of social environments on personal traits. His visual language navigates the intersection of social documentation and scientific inquiry, that invites viewers to contemplate the tangible and intangible elements that interweave personal histories in the grater social fabric.
He has worked with the 7 fingers, the Ballet National de Marseille, and Dimitris Papaioannou.
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
2024 20 years of the Photo Gallery, National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavik, ICELAND
2023 Tsundoku Art Book Fair, Dublin, IRELAND
2023 FORMAT23 Festival "The Performing Photobook Market", Derby, UK
2022 Athens Photo Festival, Photobook exhibition, Athens, GREECE
2022 The Icelandic Photography Festival 2022, National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavik, ICELAND
2020 FUTURES digital festival 2020, ONLINE
2019 LIFE FRAMER Edition V, Officine Fotografiche, Milan, ITALY
2019 LIFE FRAMER Edition V, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
2018 POINT OF VIEW, CLOUD Gallery, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
2017 Galerie Sehnsucht, Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
2017 EroticaMENTE, SATURA Art Gallery, Genova, ITALY
2017 Encontros da Imagem, Braga, PORTUGAL
2017 TRAUM - ZEIT, Galerie Noord, Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS
2017 Art for KiKa, CLOUD Gallery, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
2016 New Dutch Photography Talent 2017, 5&33, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
2016 Art Gouda, Weeshuis, Gouda, THE NETHERLANDS
2016 CosmoGrafie, VISIVA Gallery, Rome, ITALY
2016 Art for refugees, CLOUD Gallery, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
2014 CLOUD Gallery, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
2014 Bimhuis 40 years of Interaction: Bimhuis / OBA, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
2014 Aplenty Faces: Josilda da Conceicao Gallery, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
2013 Layers: Josilda da Conceicao Gallery, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
2013 SEE ME Gallery, New York, USA
2013 Josilda da Conceicao Gallery, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
AWARDS
2023 Shortlisted at URBANAUTICA INSTITUTE AWARDS 2022
2022 Special mention at HARMONY. WITH RAGUSA FOTO FESTIVAL 2022
2022 Special mention at URBANAUTICA INSTITUTE AWARDS 2021
2022 Shortlisted for the Belfast Photo Festival 2022 Book Awards
2020 FUTURES PHOTOGRAPHY
2020 PhotoRomania 2020 Festival Portfolio review
2018 Finalist at THE FACE OF THE EARTH competition LIFE FRAMER
2018 Finalist at THE HUMAN BODY competition LIFE FRAMER
2018 Shortlisted at FotoFilmic18
2017 Finalist Discovery Awards Encontros da Imagem 2017
2016 Finalist New Dutch Talent 2017
2015 Honourable Mention at PX3 WHITE competition
2015 Honourable Mention at Prix de la Photographie Paris
2014 Honourable Mention at International Photography Awards (Fine-Art Nudes)
PUBLICATIONS
2025 Der Grief
2023 Der Greif
2021 RESET, FUTURES Photography publication
2021 FUTURES Photography, Interview
2020 GUP New, Interview
2018 Create! Magazine
2018 THE HUMAN BODY, Online exhibition, LIFE FRAMER
2018 THE FACE OF THE EARTH, Online exhibition, LIFE FRAMER
2017 Dodho
2017 Square Magazine
2016 New Dutch Talent 2017
2016 Der Greif
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