PHOTOGRAPHERS/ Pepi Loulakaki

 Pepi Loulakaki is a free lance photographer based in Athens where she studied photography. 
She has attended seminars on photography from Costa Manos and Nicos Economopoulos both members of the Magnum Photo Agency. 
 
Her stories deal with the encroachment on human rights with emphasis on women, children, immigrants and gypsies and the impact of human activities on the natural environment. 
 
Her personal work includes portraying some of the most influential people in arts and science. 
 
She has covered several assignments in Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, France, Italy, New York, Tunisia, UK, Portugal etc. for magazines in Greece and abroad concerning social, political and cultural issues. She currently works with Kathimerini?s newspaper supplementary Kappa magazine.
She has also photographed album covers for record companies such as Blue Note, Lyra, FM Records and Protasis.
 
 
  Editions
 
2010  Thrace. So close, so far. The muslim world Kastaniotis editions
2007  Freund Schaft? Castrum Peregrini Press, Amsterdam
2006  On Faces?13th International Month of Photography, Hellenic Centre of Photography
2005  The artists of ECM? GRANTA publishing, England
2004  Zoom on Greece: 50 Photographers on Greece? publishing, Heart matters
2001  The Hot Springs of Greece? travel guide, (second edition 2003) Kastaniotis editions
   
Photo exhibitions 
 
2010  Who we Are Taf Gallery, The Art Foundation
2010  Feel FIVOS
2009  Photovision EFE Work in 20th to 21st century
2008  Castrum Peregrini Freund Schaft?, Amsterdam
2007  Hoxton Gallery 13 portraits of world wide musicians
2006  FNAC-Forum ?The Rogue Music Gallery
2006  Diana Gallery-Down Town ?Photo Booth: Self Portraits 
2006  Athens International Airport On Faces 13th International Month of Photography
2006  French Institute of Athens Stage On Fire 13th International Month of Photography
2006  Audio visual electronic photo presentation at Xenagetis cultural centre 
2004  Benaki New Museum Zoom on Greece: 50 Photographers on Greece
2003  Lazarite Convent, Thessalonica A gypsy site in Greece, organised by the Friends of The Melina Merkouri Foundation and the State Theatre of Northern Greece.
1999  Old Red Cross Building, A Country Doctor in the Nafpaktia Mountains, accompanied by medical supply conceptual installations. Organised by the general secretary of the new generation
 
In 2003 her photographic work was honoured in the Cultural Identities, international photographic exhibition, a part of the ?Days of Expression and Creation? festival in Thessalonica

 

www.pepiloulakaki.com