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Grigoris Digas Greek research basedphotographer working in Svalbard

Contact

studio@grigorisdigas.com

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Dr. Grigoris Digas is a research-based photographer, born and currently based in Thessaloniki, Greece. His research interests revolve around notions of boundaries, displacement and exile in a political and cultural context. He chooses and approaches his subjects through these concepts, using the landscape and its inherent cultural characteristics as an allegory. The narratives he creates are subjective and personal, emphasizing the experience of the landscape, but also analytical through the research they have behind them. Digas works in long-term projects which are usually conceived and carried out in book forms. 

Books

Toumba: A stroll in the city Collective work from selected artists, University Studio Press, 2015

Exiled in India handmade edition of 20, self-published, 2012

Memento Mori handmade edition of 10, self-published, 2011

Exhibitions

Ithacas Discovery Awards Finalist Projection, Encontros da Imagem, Braga, Portugal, 2020

Memento Mori Thessaloniki Photobiennale, Greece, 2014

Ithacas Research Student Exhibition, James Hockey Gallery, UCA Farnham, UK, 2013

Memento Mori London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2012

Exiled in India Wokingham, UK, 2012

Memento Mori Delhi Photo Festival, New Delhi, India, 2011

Ithaca MAde, UCA Farnham, UK, 2011

Deserted Land Group show, Action Field Kodra, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2011

Deserted Land Group show, Cultural Center of Kozani, Kozani, Greece, 2011

Awards

Discovery Awards, Encontros da Imagem Finalist, 2020 

Birgit Skiold Memorial Trust Award Winner, 2012

PMI2 Award of British Council Commissioned work in India, 2011

Collections

National Art Library Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum London, UK

Thessaloniki Museum of Photography Thessaloniki, Greece

Municipal Art Gallery of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, Greece

Artist Books Collections, University for the Creative Arts Farnhman, UK

Education

PhD University of Brighton, 2020

Artist in Residence The Arctic Cirle, Svalbard, 2022

MFA Photography University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK, 2012

MSc Electrical and Computer Engineering Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 2010

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