Yorgos Lanthimos Unveils His Photos of Greece

By Elena Marika Konstantinou

November 11, 2026

Yorgos Lanthimos is swapping the director's chair for a museum wall. Foam, the photography museum in Amsterdam, has announced a major exhibition of the Greek filmmaker's photographs, and one of its four series was made right at home in Greece.

Yorgos Lanthimos: Photographs runs from February 12 to June 6, 2027, according to Foam's press release. Hypebeast reports the show will bring together nearly 180 images made over the past six years.

The Greek chapter is called no word for blue. Foam describes it as an ongoing series of personal photographs taken on solitary walks around the edges of Athens and on visits to the Greek islands, with his camera fixed on everyday, easy-to-miss corners of the country.

Curator Michael Mack, founder of the London publisher MACK, said in the press release that the black-and-white work made in Greece marks "a new departure, a turning inwards to a known landscape." Honestly, there is something lovely about one of Greece's biggest names in film pointing his lens at the places he grew up around.

The other three series come from the worlds of his movies, shot on the fringes of film locations in New Orleans, Atlanta and Henley-on-Thames, and inside the recreated cities built on soundstages in Budapest. Many of those images already live in his photobooks, including Dear God, the Parthenon is still broken, made during the filming of Poor Things.

Fans who can't make it to the Netherlands get a consolation prize: a no word for blue book is set for September 2027, Foam says.

Born in Athens, Lanthimos has six Academy Award nominations to his name, plus a BAFTA, a Golden Globe, the Jury Prize at Cannes and the Golden Lion at Venice. His films include Dogtooth, The Lobster, The Favourite, Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness and Bugonia.

The Amsterdam show caps a busy photography year. Hypebeast notes that Lanthimos announced a break from filmmaking after Bugonia, and that Foam will be his third photo exhibition in a year, following shows at Onassis Stegi in Athens and the Webber Gallery in Los Angeles this past spring.