Photo booth!

This was the second time we photographed a "photo booth" during a wedding and it was again so much welcomed and enjoyed by the guests as well as the newlyweds. But this time it was a little more advanced; the guests could also send a message to the couple, thanks to a little board we found at Haga Slott.

The guests could be photographed as they want and they could send any kind of message to the couple. The couple had no idea about the messages...

Xiaolu and Michael, we hope you have a nice vacation/trip back to Genéve and we thank you once more for the trust and the wonderful time we had with you during these three days in Enköping!

Dear guests, who came to the little studio in the basement, you were really amazing! Thank you for the fun and the laughs-to-tears!

tags: bröllopsfotograf, bröllop, wedding photographer, wedding, gamos, fotografisi gamou, γάμος, φωτογραφία γάμου, destination wedding, wedding photography, bröllopsbilder, Georgios Athanasiadis, Mia Åkermark, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, event photography, Γεωργιος Αθανασιαδης, φωτογράφος, reportage, portrait

16 new priests and deacons in Stockholms Stift.

In two days time the princess Victoria of Sweden and Mr Daniel Westling will get married in Storkyrkan, in Stockholm. It is because of this wedding that the church has received a real facelift during the last months.

This Sunday it was the last time that the church was used for a ceremony before it was closed for the public untill the royal wedding. During this last ceremony 16 new priests and deacons were blessed by the bishop Ewa Brunne and were "married" the Swedish church.

Lots of their relatives and friends attended the ceremony and took the chance to photograph them together with the bishop.

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Istanbul revisited!

There are some places that you visit once and become enchanted. It feels like you must visit them again and again, that it is never enough. Istanbul is absolutely such a city; mystery, tradition, history, legend, colours and sounds... It's a magic place!
We were there some 3 years ago for the first time, for a small weekend trip and were just looking forward to visiting the city again!
Imagine our happiness when we got a inquiry from Greece, if we interested in traveling to Istanbul to photograph a baptism. A greek family would travel to istanbul from Greece with relatives and friends and they would so much like to have nice photos from their stay and the ceremony there!
Well, their stay there and the ceremony were s-p-e-c-t-a-c-u-l-a-r !!!! More than a hundred guests traveled there. Plus aproximately 30 persons/professionals who would take care of the sound, the lighting, the photo and video covering, the orchestra, the dancers... The day prior the guests were offered a cruise in Bosporus while the day after, when the ceremony was over, the family guested all the guests with a coctail party at the gardens of the Ciragan Palace Kempinski Istanbul, which was followed by a dinner in the hotel and dance untill early in the morning.
Due to the request of the family for anonimity not the names nor their photos will be shown at the blog, but a post is coming soon with photos from city, the cruise and the party!

ps: the photo of the Sultan Ahmet cami under the full moon is taken from the window of our hotel! Not a bad view! :-))


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Photo exhibition for the Holy Mount Athos.

It was 1995 when a friend, monk at the monastic republic of the Holy Mount Athos in Greece, invited me to Athos, to help him to photograph the relegious activities there during Easter. That was it; i was hooked. The following years i visited the place several times, photographing a lot, although at times it had been really dificult since the monks were very intolerant against kameras.
By the time my relations with many of them became really friendly which helped as far as photography was concerned. Some of these friendships actually have become so strong that we still meet very often although i have moved to Sweden and the distance has become thousands of kilometers.
Because of this long distance, my trips to Athos became a little more random but they continued, partly thanks to the financial help from the Association of the Swedish Photographers and the proffesional photo-lab Crimson, in the form of stipendiums.
But the photos remained in the archives and, at best, some of them where shown on internet...

Until some weeks ago, when i found an email in my mailbox from Dimitrios Salpistis, special advisor for the Mount Athos Center, and former vice-president of "Thessaloniki, the cultural capital of Europe". In the email he was explaining that the Mount Athos Center is celebrating this year a decade from its foundation, that a photo-exhibition is going to take place as part of the celebrations and was wondering if i might be interested to exhibit my work there, that they had seen in the net!!!

Well, needless to say that during my visit to Greece hundreds of negatives travelled also with me! :-) The printing will be made with the help of the incredible CCG (Colour Consulting Group) and the exhibition will be open from the 25th of June 2010 untill the 17th of September this year.

tags: Georgios Athanasiadis, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, event photography, Γεωργιος Αθανασιαδης, φωτογράφος, reportage, portrait, CCG, Mount Athos Center, Αγιορειτικη Εστια, Αγιον Ορος, εκθεση φωτογραφιας, Δημητριος Σαλπιστης, Dimitrios Salpistis, Thessaloniki, Greece. SFF, Crimson.

The Epitaph on Good Friday in Greece.

It has been a whole month without blogging which is ... almost kriminal but, God it has happened a lot during this month!

Because of the inorm amount of pictures during the different sessions it is no idea for huge posts with dosens of photos. But we love to give a taste of our work!

It was just a little than a month ago that we travelled to Greece to celebrate the Easter time with relatives there. During the Holy Week there is an escalation of religious activities with a holy procession of the Epitaph the Good Friday starting from every church all over the country and finishing back again at the same church some hours later.

tags: Georgios Athanasiadis, Mia Åkermark, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, event photography, Γεωργιος Αθανασιαδης, φωτογράφος, reportage, portrait, Greece, Easter, Good Friday, Thessaloniki, Påsk, long fredag, Θεσσαλονικη, Ελλαδα, Πασχα, Μεγαλη Εβδομαδα, Μεγαλη Παρασκευη.

Matematik-Biennalen 2010.

Some 4000 teachers in mathematics visited the Älvsjö trade fair in Stockholm, in the end of January, during the trade.

Margareta Forsbäck's lecture was one of the most sought-after lectures and was focused on the way to help younger children to learn the basic meanings in mathematics, with the help of examples from the everyday life.

tags: Georgios Athanasiadis, Mia Åkermark, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, event photography, Γεωργιος Αθανασιαδης, φωτογράφος, reportage, portrait, Orasis, Älvsjö, Matematic-Biennale, mathematics, Margareta Forsbäck