Shifting Coastline

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Gerasimos Koilakos, Greece
• Website
  http://www.gerasimoskoilakos.com
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/geraskoil/

In Greece, summer once embodied a shared way of life, rooted in access, informality, and collective use of public space. Today, it is increasingly reshaped by tourism, privatization, and market-driven development. As coastlines are transformed and everyday rituals replaced by curated experiences, the series documents how local communities still inhabit summer, not as a product, but as lived reality, and asks what remains when public space, memory, and identity are gradually commercialised and rebranded for external consumption.

Gerasimos Koilakos is a freelance photographer based in Athens, Greece. He studied photography at the Leica Academy and began his career in archaeological photography before turning to photojournalism. Through editorial assignments and personal projects, he documents social, political, and economic issues, with a particular focus on identity and culture in the global context. His work has been published internationally in Newsweek, Le Monde, Courrier International, Le Figaro, Le Point, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Handelsblatt, Internazionale, L’Espresso, D la Repubblica and Amnesty Journal.