The Neo-Fascist Face of Greece

• Prize
• Photographer
  Nikos Pilos, Greece
• Studio
  FREELANCER PHOTOJOURNALIST
• Socials
• Website
  http://www.nikospilos.com

Members of Golden Dawn pose with the elected MP, Ilias
Panayiotaros. Golden Dawn is the far-right Greek party that was
elected in last year's elections. The continuing economic crisis has
brought the rise of the far-right in Greece, as well as the rise in
hate crimes.

• Biography
  Nikos Pilos is an award-winning photojournalist and one of Europe’s noted feature photographers. He has traveled extensively to document war, natural disasters, poverty, socioeconomic struggle and cultural shifts. His work regularly appears in leading international newspapers and magazines and has been exhibited throughout Europe and U.S.Since his first assignment in Lebanon in 1988, he has covered almost all the major historical events at Balkans, Middle East, Maghreb and Eastern Europe. The last two years he is dedicated into the realization of the cross media interactive platform THE REFUGE
• Awards
  LATEST AWARDS POYi. 2020 Award of Excellence in category, Documentary News Reporting, with the short doc The Refuge. Global Migration Film Festival 2019, 3rd place at the category Shor film ,with documentary“Dying For Europe PriMed 2018 International Festival of Mediterranean Documentary and Reportage France. Public Award with the documentary Dying for Europe. World Press photo 2017. Category: short film, second place with the documentary Trapped. POYi ,2016 Category: Exodus, second place with the story The Road Of Tears. POYi, 2016 Category: Multimedia News Story, third palce with the story, Dying to enter Europe. Px3 Paris Photography 2015, Bronze metal for the story “Alevi, The Unknown People”. Fotovisura Grand 2014, Finalist for the story “Seven Years of Recession”. Px3 Paris Photography 2014, Gold medal for the story “Dying for Electricity” and Silver medal for the story “Turkey Reacts”. NPPA 2014, Honorable mention for the story “Turkey Reacts”. POYi 2014, Finalist in the World Understanding category for the story “Greece, Seven Years of Recession”. Lucie Awards, 2013, Finalist for the story “Greece, Seven Years of Recession”. PX3-Prix De la Photographie 2013, Gold medal in the Portraits category for a photograph of a member of the Golden Dawn. CHIPP - China International Press Photo Contest 2012, Award in the Economy Science & Technology category for the story “The coal mines”.