Born in Bucharest, 1973. Studied Photography in Athens and UK (University of London, Goldsmiths College –MA in Image and Communication; University of Derby –PhD) sponsored by the State Scholarship Foundation (I.K.Y.). She is a Doctor of Philosophy in Arts and Humanities, specialized in photography. Her research interests, both in terms of theory and practice, focus on photography and its relation to personal and collective memory, history and politics. She has exhibited and published extensively both in Greece and internationally. She curated a series of photography and visual art exhibitions, the most recent being “Another Life: Human Flows | Unknown Odysseys” (Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, 5-11/2016) and “Sites of Memory” (Benaki Museum, Athens, 6-7/2016). She also curated Photobiennale 2018, that is two international group exhibitions at the Museum of Photography and the Center of Contemporary Art/ MOMus entitled Capitalist Realism: Future Perfect | Past Continuous (28/9/2018 – 29/3/2019, Thessaloniki), and the eponymous book (University of Macedonia Press, 2018). She is currently co-curating the major historical exhibition “(Her)stories: photographic practices, 1974-2024” which will be presented in May 2024 at MOMus-Centre for Experimental Arts and MOMus- Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, as well as the eponymous book. Recent publications also include Sites of Memory: Photography, Collective Memory and History (Athens: Hellenic Center of Photography & NEON Foundation, 2016); the collective readers Censorship in Greece (Athens: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 2016) and Companion of Censorship in Greece: Weak Democracy, Dictatorship, Metapolitefsi (Athens: Kastaniotis, 2018) co-edited with Dimitris Christopoulos; as well as Photography and collective identities: Greek Photography Studies I (Athens: Koukkida 2021) and Photography and the anthropological turn: Greek Photography Studies II (Athens: Koukkida 2023) co-edited with John Stathatos.
He also edited or co-edited a series of special issues of scientific journals (Archiotaxio 22 [2020]; Contemporary Issues 153 [2021]; Design-Arts-Culture 4:1 [2023] and 4:2 [2024]; Historein 22:1 and 22:2 [forthcoming]).
She has been Principal Investigator of the postdoctoral research project (ELIDEK) CIVIL “Censorship in Cinema and Visual Arts: The Greek experience from the post-war years to the present” (2018-2022, Panteion University); postdoctoral fellow of the Open Society Foundation Institute, Switzerland (2017-18); member of the research team of the research project “Digital Photographic Archive ROM”, Directorate of Popular Culture, Ministry of Culture in cooperation with the Department of Photography, TEI of Athens (1999-2006).
She has had affiliated appointments as lecturer of photography theory and contemporary art since 2004. She has been lecturing in the MA course “Political Science and Modern History” (“Censorship: Interdisciplinary approaches”) in the Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University, Athens (2018-2023); and recently in the MA course “Art and the Public Sphere” (School of Political Science & School of Visual and Applied Arts, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki). She is currently teaching as adjunct lecturer at the Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts, University of West Attica.
Full CV: https://www.academia.edu/92782795/CV_2022_in_Greek_