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About the directors
Nicholas Iordanou
Born in 1975 in Paphos, Cyprus, Nicolas Iordanou
studied Fine Arts at Harold Washington College
and Photography at Columbia College Chicago.
In 2000 he was assigned as a photographer
in ‘CITY2000’ (Chicago in the Year 2000), a
project about the social and cultural aspects of
Chicago, which was exhibited at the Museum of
Science and Industry of Chicago in 2001. From
2001 until 2006 he worked as a photojournalist,
dealing with conflict and post-war photography
in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Palestine/Israel,
Uganda, Lebanon and also covering the 9/11
attacks on New York City. He collaborates pro
bono with the United Nations (UNHCR) and
with Doctors of the World.
In 2005 he was invited by the Goethe Institut
as a reviewer in the 1
st
Photography Festival of
Berlin. In 2007, he was assigned to photograph an
international project called
Challenging Walls
in
collaboration with Akademie der Künste – Berlin
and Sibylle Bergmann, whose goal was to bring
conflicted communities closer, having a common
vision of peace and coexistence. This project was
exhibited in Abu Dis, Israel/ Palestine.
In October 2009 he held his first solo exhibition
titled
Prologue
at the Centre of Contemporary Art
Diatopos in Nicosia, Cyprus. In 2010 he worked
as a Director of Photography in the Italian film
From Father’s Eyes
and in 2012 he co-directed the
short film
About Us
. In 2013 he participated in the
exhibition
Catharsis/Rebirth
in Paphos, Cyprus and
co-directed a short film presentation from it, which
was selected and presented in the Louvre Museum
in Paris as part of Michelangelo Pistoletto’s
exhibition
Annee Un – Le Paradis Sur Terre
(Year
One - Paradise on Earth). In 2014 he co-directed
the mockumentary
Salvador
and in 2015 the
documentary
Cementography
, a three-year project.
Costas Economou working on ‘Morfeas’ polystyrene mould, 1989
Costas Economou and Christoforos Savva, Paris 1957
Attempt 1 - Christos Foukaras 1977
