We are a couple at work and in life. Georgios is from Greece while Mia is Swedish. We both love photography and this is how we met eachother!
We are based in Stockholm but we hapilly travel all over the world for destination photo-sessions or just for the pure joy of travelling of course! We travel more than happily for destination weddings in Greece and other countries.
You can reach us at info@orasisfoto.se , call us at +46 73 6505106 or through skype at "orasis".
We talk fluently sweedish, english and greek. And by the way, we are Nikon and Mac fanatics! :-)
Καλωσήρθατε στο blog μας!
Είμαστε ο Γιώργος κι η Μαρία, ζευγάρι στη ζωή αλλά και στη δουλειά. Και οι δυό μας λατρεύουμε τη φωτογραφία, άλλωστε μέσω αυτής γνωριστήκαμε. Ταξιδεύουμε ευχαρίστως για τις φωτογραφήσεις μας, η χαρά μας δε είναι ακόμα μεγαλύτερη όταν πρόκειται για φωτογράφηση στην Ελλάδα.
Στείλτε μας μύνημα στο info@orasisfoto.se , τηλεφωνήστε μας στο +46 73 6505106 ή βρείτε μας στο skype στο "orasis". Αν εκείνη την ώρα φωτογραφίζουμε, θα απαντήσουμε το αργότερο σε μια εργάσιμη ημέρα. Ευχαριστούμε που μας επισκεφθήκατε! :-)
Sitting in the office working with photos, while the temperatures in Stockholm are around +30° C, i can't resist going back to the photos from a wedding we photographed this winter.
Carolina had just gotten married with her Fidde, and everybody run in the warmth of the house.
Her sister with her fiancé were the last ones to go in, after they had picked up some things used during the ceremony. On the way to the house they stopped for a kiss and a hug.
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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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.
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.
Wow! How exciting! Just booked the ticket to Istanbul (via Thessaloniki) to photograph a christening there! :-) We were there a couple of years ago for some holidays and the photos resulted to an article at the leading swedish travel magasine Vagabond (nr 04/2007). Now we shall be a part of an approximately 35 persons group who all will work to make the christening day unforgetable for the parents of the baby and their guests, together with musicians, video filming crew, film-director and everybody else! The celebrations will last 2 days with a daily cruise in Bosporus the first day and the ceremony plus the reception the day after. Just praying for the icelandic volcano to take it a little easier now and for a nice weather in Istanbul!!!
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.
Yesterday we received this beautiful invitation that Carolina and Fidde sent to us for their wedding!
The couple is a really active one, very much interested in sports and especially in climbing on ice (Fidde is an instructor actually). So it did not feel as a surprise that they chose to get married outdoors, at one of their favorite places, the Abisko tourist station, in the end of March (Abisko is a small city some 150 km north of the polarcirkel, nearby Kiruna).
We only wish that we shall also have the luck to witness the fabulous Aurora while there and even farthermore to photograph the just married couple under it!
"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.
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.
In the middle of September we left Stockholm with near 0 degrees and arrived in Santorini.
At 8.30 in the evening and with 22 degrees C, the wedding couple with the bestman and one more friend were at the airport to welcome us and take us out for dinner, before they droveus to the hotel.
3 hours and lots of seafood and other greek delicasies later, we arrived at the hotel, left our things there and followed the couple for a drink at a club, where their friends were waiting. We left them at the bar and went to sleep at ... 06.30 in the morning!!!
That was a taste of what would follow the next days!
The couple with their closest friends had booked rooms at a wonderful hotel at Imerovigli, just a few meters away from the church where they would have the wedding ceremony.
The view from their hotel and the terace where everybody was gothering for a coffee was simply breathtaking.
The bride started getting ready for the ceremony at 3 pm with her closest friends. It was a change from the weddings we usually photograph to see so many of the bride's family members just coming in and out her room, huging and wishing, and being photographed with her!
On the meantime, the bridegroom with his friends did not look any stressed at all, just chilling out with a few drinks near the hotel's swimming pool!
Both the bride and the bridegroom were escorted to the church by their families and relatives ... with the bride almost dragging her father from anxiety to meet her love and come in the church!
After the ceremony and just before entering the venue where the reception party would be held, i asked the couple what was the schedule of the happenings there.
Nikos said they would cut the cake first and then they would go around the gests' tables to skoal with each one of them. Then they would sit down and take it easy for the rest of the night to get some rest.
"Won't you dance any?", i asked them rather surprised. "The first dance is always the bride's by tradition!"
"No, no!" they both anwered at once, "let the older dance! We shall take it easy!"
Well, he, he, yes the older did dance, but i don't think the couple got any rest either! :-)
By the way, the teenager who played greek traditional music from the islands with his violin was a-m-a-z-i-n-g!
Because of shortage of time we did not have the time for some photos of the couple with the bestman and the bridesmaid at the wedding day.
But we had plenty of time the day after! :-)
So out we were again, with everybody in the nice clothes (except me, it was some 30 degrees C). We also had the friends as our audience following us everywhere, plus dosens of turists who thought it was a photo session for some fashion magasine and of course stopped by to take their own pictures! :-)
Chara and Niko, our warmest congratulations and wishes for your life together! And many thanks because you were the reason for a wonderful time in a wonderful island!
Many thanks also to Jannis (the bestman), Giwta (the super happy bridesmaid), Niki, Ariadni (most beloved!), Aggelos and Paulina and everybody else, who welcomed us and made us feel as if we new you for years!
We love you all! :-)
And now klick on the slideshow below to see even more photos.
If the speed of your internet connection allows it klick here to see it in full HD quality (or choose another quality that suits your connection better).
Και τώρα δείτε ακόμα πιο πολλές φωτογραφίες στο slideshow που ακολουθεί.
Αν η ταχύτητα σύνδεσης σας στο ιντερνετ το επιτρέπει, πατήστε εδώ για full HD ανάλυση (ή για να διαλέξετε άλλη ανάλυση που σας ταιριάζει περισσότερο )
