Lamis Dajani Shawwa

Lamis Dajani Shawwa is a visual artist and interior designer residing in Greece. 

She studied Art at La Verne University (Athens, Greece), graduating with honours (summa cum laude) . 

Thereafter she studied Interior Design at the Inchbald School of Design (London, UK) where she was awarded a distinction for her work. She went on to teach at Inchbald for a number of years.

Lamis worked at interior design projects in Toronto, Jerusalem, London, Damascus, and Athens.

Her work has been featured in a number of publications including Elle Decor, Villas Views & Ideas, Elle Decoration, and Mediterranean Living.

Most recently, Lamis has been working on a new collection of abstract expressionist paintings. 

Vassilis Konstantinou was born in 1979 in Athens where he currently lives. 

He studied Physical Education and Sport Science in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Photography and Audiovisual Arts in University of West Attica (Athens). 

In 2021, he completed his first short film  titled MEDEA, which has won international awards: At the Swedish International Film Festival for Best student film (Arvika, Sweden) in October  2021 .  At the Mannheim Arts and Film Festival (Germany) for Best Director of Short Film  in July 2021. Most recently at the Lacorne International Film Festival (Paris) for Best Drama Short Film in June 2022.

His involvement with photography started in 2007. Since then he has attended seminars conducted by Platon Rivellis: “Introduction to Art Photography” (annual), “Photography Critique” and “Portfolio Critique”. 

Group exhibitions:   

July, 2012: ''Greek Photographic forms'', 1st International  Biennale of Santorini (Santorini)   

May 2013:   2nd International festival of Art and Creation (Zakynthos)   

May, 2014:  ''The Seas'' , Gallery Box (Athens)   February,2018:  ''Selfimages'' , participation with ''Family Frames'' project , Museum of Photography (Thessaloniki)   

September, 2020:  ''Stalk Me'', Photometria International Photography Festival (Ioannina).   

October, 2020: ''Balkans Today'' ,participation with Southern Province project,cBalkan Can Kino (Athens).      

Solo Exhibitions:  

January, 2021: ''Family Frames'' at, Space Place Gallery (Nizhny Tagil,Russia). 

June 2021 : ''Pregnant Pauses'' at  International Photoszene Festival (Cologne,Germany). 

September 2021: ''Pregnant Pauses'' at International Photometria Festival (Ioannina, Greece)