Eleni Mouzakiti Artistic Director Women’s Photo Festival & Photopolis Festival, Curator House of Lucie Athens,
Eleni Mouzakiti (PhD) is an Athens-based photographer, curator and educator. Her work bridges artistic production and curatorial practice, with a focus on human ecology and photography’s relationship to landscape and social space.
She holds a PhD in Photography as an Art Practice (University of Derby, UK) and an MA in Image and Communication (Goldsmiths, University of London). She has been awarded fellowships by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation, the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, and the DAAD.
Her artistic practice has been exhibited internationally and is held in institutional collections including the Portland Museum of Art (USA), the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, and the State Museum of Contemporary Art (Greece). In parallel, her curatorial practice has been developed through major photography platforms and institutions, where she has curated and coordinated exhibitions and editorial projects including the Athens Photo Festival, the Thessaloniki Photo Biennale, the Women’s Photo Festival in Athens, the Photopolis Festival, the Street Photo Festival and the International Photography Awards. She has also served as a jury member for photography awards and competitions.
Kostas Ioannidis is Professor of Art Theory and Criticism at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He is a writer, curator and co-founder of The Provinces Platform, an initiative dedicated to contemporary photography and visual culture in the Greek periphery. Between 2006 and 2009, he served as a jury member for Photo Lucida. He has been awarded fellowships for research from the Clark Art Institute, the Fulbright Foundation, and Princeton University.
His publications include the books: Contemporary Greek Photography (futura & Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, 2008) and Three at Sea, co-authored with Emmanouela Kantzia. More recently, he published An “Exquisitely Hybrid Art”: Poetics of Photography in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century (futura, 2019), for which he received the Greek State Award for Essay and Criticism (2020), as well as Artworks, People and Ideas: Greece – USA and the Cold War (Futura 2025).
