Portraits for the Swedish Prison and Probation Service.

Recently we photographed some portraits for Kriminalvården (the Swedish Prison and Probation Service). One of the persons to be photographed was Ulrica Palm Jaconelli, who is project-leader working in the Service. The photos are going to be publiced at the service's magasine.

Ulrica, thank you SO much for posing for us twice! :-)

(photos by both Georgios and Mia)

tags: Georgios Athanasiadis, Mia Åkermark, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, event photography, Γεωργιος Αθανασιαδης, φωτογράφος, reportage, portrait, Kriminalvården,

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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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.

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

Helena Palm.

Grandezza is an independent concultancy, working with Business and IT development. They are specialized in supporting their customers in their strategic planning process.

One of its consultants is Helena Palm, biolog, who was photographed as part of a series of portraits for a new project.

tags: Georgios Athanasiadis, Mia Åkermark, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, event photography, Γεωργιος Αθανασιαδης, φωτογράφος, reportage, portrait, porträtt, Helena Palm, alumn, Stockholms Universitet, Grandezza, företags fotografering, consultancy.

Isihia - Silence

"Isihia" (= Ησυχία ) is the greek name for "silence".

I have travelled many times to the monastic community of the Holly Mount Athos, in Greece, where silence is very much appreciated by the monks who live there. It helps them concentrate on the spiritual world, on praying, on God. It helps them avoiding the distractions of the materialistc world.

Isihia (Bulgarian: Исихия, "hesychia") are a Bulgarian music band founded in 2000, the style of which unites elements of Bulgarian folklore and Hesychast Christian chant of the 14th century to create an atmosphere of Balkan spiritual mysticism (copied from Wikipedia).

Well, guess our surprise when we were contacted by the production company of the new album of the group, who were interested to buy the right to use 3 of our pictures from Athos for worldwide use for the new cd of the group.

The negotations are going on with the lawyers of the company and on the meantime we have the chance to listen to samples of the group's music at their homepage. They can also be found at facebook, as well as in the iTunes Store.

tags: φωτογράφος, Georgios och Mia, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, events photography, Georgios Athanasiadis, Γεωργιος Αθανασιαδης, Αγιον Ορος, Αθως, Ησυχια, Πασχα, Ι. Μ. Ξενοφωντος, Isihia, Agion Oros, Athos, Eastern, Påsk, Moni Xenofontos, Silence,

some photos to catch up ...

We have not blogged for some time now, and the trouth is that we have been a little lazy due to the holidays but that we spent much more time with our children than the cameras and the computer.
But here come some photos from some of the jobs we have done during the last weeks.

The priminister of Sweden, Fredrik Reinfeldt, came to the Stockholm University, to talk about enviromental issues. Unfortunately, his tight schedule did not permit a planned interviue with portrait photos, but it was a joy anyway to photograph him while adressing the audience, as you can see at the following contact-sheet.

The Swedish Fiscal Policy Council needed some photos for their homepage, from their meeting to discuss and comment the 2010 Budget Bill of the Swedish Gouverment (I was almost three hours with them but i can not brag that i understood that much with all that economy terminology!) :-)

The Stockholm University was visited by the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Tobias Krantz, who spent half a day there. He was photographed in front of Aula Magna during the 3-4 minutes that were booked in his schedule for that.

In Aula Magna was also Paul Crutzen photographed, during his visit to the University. As a Nobel prize winner in chemistry in 1995, this was not the first time to visit the place. His signature is part of the decoration of the wall near the entrance of Aula Magna.

Eva Brunne is the new bishop in Stockholms Stift, and on the 10th of January was at the Storkyrka for the cosecration of the new priests. That was the first time since she became the new bishop.

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The Nobel Banquet 2009.

Well, how can this evening be described with words?

Maybe it is better to redirect you to some of our photos at the Nobel Foundation's homepage instead, until we put some more photos at our blog (use the arow above the photos to move to the next ones).

tags: φωτογράφος, Georgios och Mia, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, events photography, Georgios Athanasiadis, Mia Åkermark, Nobel Banquet, Nobel, Nobel Bankett, Stadshuset, Nobelstiftelsen, Nobel Foundation.

The Nobel Laureates in Aula Magna, SU.

On Tuesday the 8th of December the Nobel Laureates of this year visited the Stockholm University as guests of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. There, in Aula Magna, they kept a series of lectures about their works that was honored with the Nobel prize, and met colleagues and university students.

The lectures started early in the morning and lasted until the evening of the day. In the end the audienence had the chanse to meet the Laureates, talk with them and even get autographs.

tags: φωτογράφος, Georgios och Mia, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, events photography, Nobelstiftelsen, Nobel Foundation, KVA, Kungliga Vetenskaps Akademien, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, SU, Stockholms Universitet, Aula Magna, Nobel pristagaren, Nobel Laureates, Svante Lindqvist, Elinor Ostrom, Willard S. Boyle, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Oliver E. Williamson, Mia Åkermark, Georgios Athanasiadis.

The Nobel Foundation reception at the Nordic Museum.

The Nordic museum opened its doors at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon for the Nobel Laureates and the other guests of the Nobel Foundation.

tags: φωτογράφος, Georgios och Mia, Orasis foto, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, events photography, Nobel prizes, Nobel mottagning, Nobelstiftelsen, Nordiska museet, Djurgården,

The Nobel Laureates visit the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences hosted the Nobel Laureates in Physics and Chemistry, as well as the receiver of the National Bank of Swedens prize in Economics in memory of Alfred Nobel, yesterday at Frescati.

After the reception a dinner followed at the Club Villa.

tags: φωτογράφος, Georgios och Mia, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, events photography, Nobelstiftelsen, Nobel prize, KVA, Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien, Nobelmottagning

Waiting for the Nobel Laureates of 2009.

On Friday we met the pleasent people from the Nobel Foundation to get through the schedule of the activities that the Nobel Laureates of 2009 will be attending during their visit in Stockholm, between the 7th and the 13th of December.
It's an intense week with photographing at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskaps Akademien - KVA), the Nordiska Museet, the Cityhall (Stadshuset), the Nobel museum, the Stockholms University and at the Nobel Foundation.
But this week is also one of the most interesting and spectacular to photograph of the whole year, and we are so much looking forward to it!

The picture above is from the banquet in 2008. Some more pictures from the same night can be seen here.
All the photos are shown with the kind permition of the Nobel Foundation. If you need pictures from the Nobel week, please contact the Foundation.


tags: Georgios och Mia, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, events photography, Orasis foto, Alfred Nobel, Nobel banquet, Nobel Foundation, Nobelpris, Nobelbankett, Nobel prizes, Nobel Laureates

Published on the first page of "Metro".

We are sooo excited!!!

The whole day today we have been receiving numerous emails, telephone calls, SMSs and messages at facebook from friends, customers and "our" wedding couples, about the article at Metro concerning our work as wedding photographers.

We are thrilled, we thank you all so much and we feel rather strange seeing ourselves on the photos.

Well, a photo at the first page of the newspaper plus the whole first page and the following page of the extra supplement dedicated on photography, is not something happening to us everyday! And considering that the newspaper is read by milions of people everyday (both the paper 4 editions and the internet edition in the whole country) feels us with joy!

A special thank you to the happy newly wedd couple, Helena and Niklas, that gave us their permition for these pictures to be published. We are sure you have a great honeymoon in Thailand right now! And you don't have to worry for a wedding announcement at a newspaper anymore! :-)

By Georgios.

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International conferens in Catalyst Chemistry.

In the middle of September the chemisrty Nobel Laureate in 2005 Robert Grubbs, professor in the California Institute of Technology, visited Stockholm and participated at the International Conferens of Catalyst Chemsisrty, which was held at Aula Magna, in Stockholms Univeristy.

The professor really kept the interest of the audience with his presentation, talked about the "green" catalysts, and made the audience laugh several times with his humor, especially when he mentioned the bath products from Victoria's Secrets line and "her logo" "think pink, live green"!

tags: Georgios och Mia, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, events photography, orasisfoto, orasis foto, Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm's University, kemikonferens, Robert Grubbs, Nobelpristagare 2005, California Institute of Technology, Aula Magna, katalytisk kemi, catalyst, chemistry

15 new priests and 1 new diakon.

Yesterday we hade the privilege of being at the Storkyrka and attending the ceremony where 15 new priests and a diakon were blessed at the start of their new career, and welcomed by the bishop of Stockholms Stift in their "new family".
The ceremony was special not only due to the large number of the priests but mainly because it was the last time for the bishop of leading this ceremony as she is going to be retired soon and the already new elected bishop will continue next time.

Big applauds erupted when the bishop asked the public to welcome the new members of the church!

In the end everyone of the new priests was photographed alone together with Caroline Krook, and also a group photo was taken with everybody included.

More photos can be seen here.

Bröllopsfotografer.com

We have just come back from a wonderful holiday in Greece, just to find our mailbox full of emails from friends and customers (not to mention all the commercials and the spam). it's always a joy to keep contact with peope and as nice to read emails with questions for photo-sessions, but just the idea of going through all the emails one-by-one to delete the unnecessary ...
And then, here it comes one that has long been awaited and the joy comes back! :-)
We have just received a confirmation email that we are also included at the www.brollopsfotografer.com where some of the best swedish wedding photographers are displayed!

"Darwin is back home!"

2009 is the year that Charles Darwin "becomes" 200 years old and Darwinism 150 years old.

It's this year that Stockholm University is celebrating also for finding and bringing back to its library Darwins bok "The descent of Man and selection in relation to sex".

The book is from the first published edition, has Darwins autograph in it and had been stolen and away from the university's library for many decades.

Until it was seen as an item for sale in an auktion's list and recognised by the university's stamp...

Right now the book has come back "home" and it is secure in "the holly room" where just a few have access, a great number of other very rare books are also collected and eveything is preserved under controlled conditions of light, temperature and humidity. 

To see the photos larger click on them.

To read more and see a film about the book click here.