Yannis Karpouzis is an Athens-based artist working with photography, filmmaking and text. He is also a PhD candidate (Ionian University, Royal Danish Academy) in the disciplines of Photography Theory and Aesthetics. He has been awarded the Newcomer film-maker award by the Greek Film Center in 22nd Thessaloniki film festival for the essay film, Nikos Karouzos: Poems on the Tape Recorder among other festival awards. His poetry book Paper Time Has Run Out, has been shortlisted for Greek state's youth literature award and has received the youth award by Anagnostis magazine. His long-term photographic project Parallel Crisis has received the Descubrimientos prize in PHotoEspana 2015 and the Portfolio Review Prize in Athens Photo Festival 2016. His projects explore areas associated with social imbalance, political history, media aesthetics and Marxism. Yannis had solo shows in Centro de Arte Alcobendas, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art-MOMus and Hyper Hypo. His work have been presented in major Greek and international institutions (New museum of New York - Deste Foundation, Benaki Museum, Rencontres d'Arles, Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Association of Icelandic Artists, Photo-Beijing, Jeune Création, Fluxus Foundation). His work is included in prominent collections like Thessaloniki's Museum of Photography and Alcobendas' Centro de Arte.