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.

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, Storkyrkan, prästvigning, Stockholms Stift,

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! :-))


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, christening, baptism, dop, βαφτιση, Κωνσταντινουπολη, Istanbul, Blue Mosque, Sultan Ahmet Cami)

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.

"Underkastelsen".

Åke Bergman, professor i Miljökemi vid Stockholms universitet, medverkade med Stefan Jarl i hans nya dokumentär "Underkastelsen" om kemikalierna i vår kropp och i våra barn.

Här kan ni läsa Åkes intervju till NyTeknik angående filmen och kemikalierna i våra liv.

tags: Mia Åkermark, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, event photography, φωτογράφος, reportage, portrait, Stockholms Universitet, Åke Bergman

Wedding at the Nuoljas Bergstation, i Abisko.

This weekend we had the real pleasure to travel to Abisko, near Kiruna, at the very north of Sweden, to photograph a wedding.

The bride with roots in Poland and the bridegroom with roots in Lappland. Both of them loving sports and the life in nature. They met eachother on Kebnekaise mountain some years ago, and they decided to get married at the top of the Nuolja fjäll, in the Arctic circle.

We had real luck with the weather, with a beautiful sunsine, although it was freezing cold. Everybody, including the wedding couple, arrived by chairlifts, but many chose to take the way back skiing or snowboarding, after the ceremony!

Here is just a preview while downloading the pictures from the weekend.

Soon more photos to come!

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, Abisko, Lappland, Kiruna, fjällen, Carolina, Fidde,

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.

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.

tags: bröllopsfotograf, bröllop, wedding photographer, wedding, gamos, fotografisi gamou, γάμος, φωτογράφος, φωτογραφία γάμου, destination wedding, wedding photography, bröllopsbilder, Georgios och Mia, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, events photography,

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.

tags: bröllopsfotograf, bröllop, wedding photographer, wedding, gamos, fotografisi gamou, γάμος, φωτογράφος, φωτογραφία γάμου, destination wedding, wedding photography, bröllopsbilder, Georgios och Mia, fotograf, Stockholm, Sweden, events photography, Metro, Stefankyrkan

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

Stockholm's University 2009 doctoral awards in Stadshuset.

In the end of September it was time for the yearly ceremony of Stockholms University to award the new doktors in a magnificent ceremony in Stadshuset, in Stockholm.

During the ceremony the "pedagogiska priset" was also awarded.

After the ceremony at the "blå hallen" the dinner was offered at the "gyllene salen".

The serving of the desert was as always spectacular and after the dinner followed dance until early in the morning.

If you wish to see some photos from the same ceremony from previous years click here and here.

You can visit the galleries with ALL the pictures from this year's ceremony by clicking here.

tags: fotograf, Stockholm, Stockholms Universitet, Stadshuset, doktorspromotion, hedersdoktorer, Orasis foto, evenemangsfotografering, event photography, φωτογράφος, φωτογραφιση τελετης, απονομη διδακτορικων

The Nobel prizes 2009.

Last year we had the honour to be the official photographers of the Nobel Foundation, and thus to photograph the Nobel Laureates from their arrival to the swedish capital city and during the whole Nobel Week. Of course, we were there to photograph the zenith of the celebrations at the Stadshuset, the Nobel Banquet.
We are so excited that we shall have the same privilege again this year, to photograph during the Nobel Week 2009!

Here comes some photos from the previous year, with the kind permition of the Nobel Foundation.
Though it was we that we photographed, the copyright of the pictures belongs to the Nobel Foundation, so for permission to materials which the Nobel Foundation holds copyright, please contact Annika Pontikis, Public Relations Manager at info@nobel.se.