ELENI ALBAROSA

Bio

Born in Greece and raised in Italy until the end of her studies, Eleni Albarosa (Athens, 1996)  began shooting at the age of fifteen; in the same year she was first published by National Geographic Italy. She is mainly interested in exploring social realities marred by prejudice, misinformation or harmful stereotypes. This passion stems from her long standing practice as a photographer and nurtured by her bachelor studies in Anthropology, where she graduated with 105/110 with a thesis about the internal economy of prison. Her work has led her to explore nomadic circus life, Rom communities in Italy and Greece, Irish Travellers in the UK, an inmate theater company in Mexico City, and many others. She has also collaborated in different photo projects and has been published among others by National Geographic USA (2024), Billboard (2024), Huck Magazine (2023) and Overseas Magazine (2021),  National Geographic Italy (2012) she worked as a photographer pursuing collaborations with various entities including the Antetokounbros Academy and Nike (2021), and for Eleusis City of Culture 2023. In 2024 she has started a project on former prisoners who now work as actors in Mexico city, collaborating with the anthropologist Jorge Varela Perera, a project that led her to win the Canon Student Development Program in Perpignan 2024.