you can't go home again, 2014 - 2024
In you can’t go home again, Antigoni Papantoni reflects on her experiences of the past decade, feeling like a sailor adrift between cultures, gradually losing her sense of belonging. This sense of disorientation inspired her to develop an intuitive, autobiographical photography practice that explores elusive concepts of home and identity. The book unfolds as a visual road movie, mirroring a journey from unfamiliarity to intimacy. It acts as a navigation guide through the challenging process of seeking a place of refuge – a haven to come home to.
Photobook developed and published in collaboration with
ZOETROPE Athens ( @zoetrope.athens ), 2024
Limited edition 350 copies
Offset Printed by Future Format ( @thefutureformat )
Antigonι Papantoni lives everywhere and nowhere. Born in Piraeus, she has been moving between Lausanne and Athens for years, often passing through Amsterdam and Doha. A graduate of the Vevey School of Photography, she draws on her personal experience to explore how the environment shapes an individual’s psychological experience. Her photographic practice, obsessive and prolific, has given rise to an extensive, almost anarchic personal archive.
you can’t go home again, her first photobook (Zoetrope), has traveled around the world, seeking inclusive versions of the concept of “home.” Her work in progress, KAIROS—winner of the near. prize 2025—will be presented at the Lenzburg Photofestival in Switzerland in 2026 and focuses on the unspoken forms of normalized violence.
At the same time, she works in the film industry, having gone through almost all the stages in the life of a film. When she grows up, she envisions a space in the Greek countryside where art, proximity to nature, and practices of meditation and disconnection form a community rather than elitism—an endeavor already being cultivated through the collective photography workshops she has been leading in Anafi since 2023.
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Awards
- 2025Shortlisted for Les Boutographies 2025
- near. prize
- FRESH EYES x Hungry Eye Talent 2025 by Gup Magazine
- Shortlisted for Lenzburg Photofestival 2025
- Shortlisted for the Void x FUTURES 2025
- 2024Shortlisted, APhF Dummy Award feat. Witty Books, Athens Photography Festival (GR)
Exhibitions
- 2025Please allow me to introduce myself, MAMMOT, Athens (GR)
- Pure Identities Festival - HERizons, MOMus, Thessaloniki (GR)
- 2024Stammtisch by Collectif Le Salon, Journées Photographiques de Bienne (CH)
- you can’t to home again, SPACE PLACE gallery (RU)
- 2023Verso of Perception, Photobook Exhibition, Zoetrope, Athens (GR)
- Past & Present : Weekend at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Der Greif (DE)
- near x Musée d’art de Pully, Voyage au Fil de l’Eau, Pully (CH)
- 2021Balkans Today. The present of a wounded landscape, Athens (GR)
- 2019a sea to rest, Cinélux, Geneva (CH)
- 2018à la recherche du cartographone, Fête de la musique Yverdon-les-bains & Nyon, Switzerland
- 2017SAFE ZONE, Galerija Siva, Zagreb (HR)
- 2016NEAR by Night, Cinéma Bellevaux, Lausnne (CH)
- Þíða - Thaw, Fjúk Arts Center, Húsavík (IS)
- Carte blanche à NEAR, Biennale de la Photographie 2016, Mulhouse (FR)
- 2015Strates 25, Strates Galerie, Lausanne (CH)
- 2014Hordes et Nuées, Festival Images, Vevey (CH)
- On fait du lourd, Oblo Cinema, Lausanne (CH)
- Don't Look at The Beast, La Nuit des Images, NEAR x Musée de l'Elysée (CH)
- 2013The Way Beyond, théâtre Arsenic, Lausanne (CH)
Publications
- 2025FRESH EYES x Hungry Eye 2025
- Safelight Paper, Borders and Boundaries (DE)
- 2024you can't go home again, photobook, published with Zoetrope Athens
- 2022Artcore Magazine (GR)
- 201917 shots #2 edition, Swiss Salon, Venice Biennale 2019 (IT)
- 2016Whitelight Rooms, Contemporary Greek Photography Online Platform (GR)
- Atelier Magazine, School of Architecture, EPFL, Lausanne (CH)
- HOTEL #3 Art Magazine (GR)
- Der Greif, Online Magazine, Guest-room by Jörg Colberg (DE)
- Kiosk of Democracy Blog (DE)
- 2013The way beyond, Collaboration between CEPV and Théâtre Arsenic, Lausanne (CH)
Awards
- 2025Shortlisted for Les Boutographies 2025
- near. prize
- FRESH EYES x Hungry Eye Talent 2025 by Gup Magazine
- Shortlisted for Lenzburg Photofestival 2025
- Shortlisted for the Void x FUTURES 2025
- 2024Shortlisted, APhF Dummy Award feat. Witty Books, Athens Photography Festival (GR)
Exhibitions
- 2025Please allow me to introduce myself, MAMMOT, Athens (GR)
- Pure Identities Festival - HERizons, MOMus, Thessaloniki (GR)
- 2024Stammtisch by Collectif Le Salon, Journées Photographiques de Bienne (CH)
- you can’t to home again, SPACE PLACE gallery (RU)
- 2023Verso of Perception, Photobook Exhibition, Zoetrope, Athens (GR)
- Past & Present : Weekend at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Der Greif (DE)
- near x Musée d’art de Pully, Voyage au Fil de l’Eau, Pully (CH)
- 2021Balkans Today. The present of a wounded landscape, Athens (GR)
- 2019a sea to rest, Cinélux, Geneva (CH)
- 2018à la recherche du cartographone, Fête de la musique Yverdon-les-bains & Nyon, Switzerland
- 2017SAFE ZONE, Galerija Siva, Zagreb (HR)
- 2016NEAR by Night, Cinéma Bellevaux, Lausnne (CH)
- Þíða - Thaw, Fjúk Arts Center, Húsavík (IS)
- Carte blanche à NEAR, Biennale de la Photographie 2016, Mulhouse (FR)
- 2015Strates 25, Strates Galerie, Lausanne (CH)
- 2014Hordes et Nuées, Festival Images, Vevey (CH)
- On fait du lourd, Oblo Cinema, Lausanne (CH)
- Don't Look at The Beast, La Nuit des Images, NEAR x Musée de l'Elysée (CH)
- 2013The Way Beyond, théâtre Arsenic, Lausanne (CH)
Publications
- 2025FRESH EYES x Hungry Eye 2025
- Safelight Paper, Borders and Boundaries (DE)
- 2024you can't go home again, photobook, published with Zoetrope Athens
- 2022Artcore Magazine (GR)
- 201917 shots #2 edition, Swiss Salon, Venice Biennale 2019 (IT)
- 2016Whitelight Rooms, Contemporary Greek Photography Online Platform (GR)
- Atelier Magazine, School of Architecture, EPFL, Lausanne (CH)
- HOTEL #3 Art Magazine (GR)
- Der Greif, Online Magazine, Guest-room by Jörg Colberg (DE)
- Kiosk of Democracy Blog (DE)
- 2013The way beyond, Collaboration between CEPV and Théâtre Arsenic, Lausanne (CH)