Photographer, Reporter, Traveller and Anthropologist

26/04/96 - Athens (GR)

Eleni was born in Athens, grew up in Italy and is currently based in Athens.

She stumbled upon photography when she was 14 years old, and gradually realised she had found a means to truly express herself.
When she was fifteen she was published in the Italian National Geographic, a moment which gave wings to her curiosity. Since then she has never stopped playing, reading and exploring the world through her camera lens.

Her relationship with photography has grown alongside her over the years. She tasted every possible angle on life, visually and personally, to find order in the chaos she felt inside her. Always looking with optimism, Eleni hopes to communicate the beauty she sees in the world, giving it as a gift to others.

Her visual anthropological experiences increasingly draw her focus towards thesocial, political, economic and cultural contexts around the world, educating herunderstanding of the many possibilities of photographic communication.

Eleni is graduated in Anthropology at the University of Bologna with 105/110.

She took part in several prestigious workshops to improve her photographicskills (es. with the Magnum photographer Nikos Economopoulos) and she hasdone exhibitions in different countries: Italy (Veneto region, Milan, and Materacity of Culture 2019), UK and the USA. She believes in photography as apowerful media for connecting yourself to everything surrounds you and a greatmedia for reading and exploring the world in a different and deep way 

"Che bella cosa è l'uomo, quando è uomo"

Menandro

"Nobody has ever fled love, nor ever will while beauty exists and there are eyes to contemplate it."

Longo Sofista


Work Experiences

In addition to her documentary and visual anthropology work, she has been working in many fields of photography since she was really young, collecting in the years a really versatile knowledge.

Since she was 16 years old she had the opportunity to collaborate in the Fashion field with many international brands such as the South Korean brand of Sunglasses Radioeyes creating their fashion campaigns. She has realized also campaigns for cloths brands, jewelry, and accessories for many different brands taking also many times the responsibility of the Art Direction of the campaign. The last works she realized are for NIKE https://www.nike.com/ch/it/a/giannis-antetokounbros-academy and the stylist GINA ARBILIA collaborating with the young greek stylist Eleni Kavvada.

She has worked also for Theaters since she was 16 years old, having the opportunity to photograph the theater shows of some of the most important companies from Italy but also foreigners. She covered all the fields of Theater, such as: Opera, Prose and Dance... collaborating with realities such as the "Teatro Ponchielli" https://www.teatroponchielli.it/, with theater directors such as the awarded Opera director Andrea Cigni https://andreacigni.it/, photographing productions of theaters such as those of the "Teatro Alla Scala di Milano" and "Teatro Elfo Puccini", photographing the productions of companies such as those of Ricci/Forte http://www.ricciforte.com/, she collaborated also with important festivals of theater such as the Orizzonti Festival in Tuscany http://www.orizzontifestival.it/. She has realized the stage photography of many theater works covering all the realization, the backstage and the rehearsals of the show until the completion of the work and the staging of it, for example with the piece Nabucco of Giuseppe Verdi directed by Andrea Cigni. In the field of Theater she has realized also professional portraits and books for actors.

In the field of Performative arts she has photographic experience also of Performances, Puppet Theater and Circus. In fact she has been traveling with circus since 2015 and collaborating with many realities such as Circo PaNiKo, Circo Magdaclan, Side Kunst Cirque and she has photographed also Circus Festivals such as Città di Circo.

She has  a professional experience in portrait photography realizing many powerful portraits for musicians and artists and she has been working  also into wedding photography.

Languages

. Italian: first language.

. Greek: mother tongue.

. English: fluent.

. Spanish.

.French.


Latest Exhibitions


. 2018 

London -Youmanity      Photography Award

2022

.USA- The Humid Gallery

.2019 

Italy -Matera città della Cultura  - City of circuses

Italy - Festival della Fotografia - Bassano del Grappa 

.2023

Italy - Milano One Shot 

Paris - Streets Sans Frontieres (Image Nation Gallery) - During Paris Photo Days

Latest Contests

.2024

CANON STUDENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

The Independent Photographer - Street Photography Award



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