Penelope Thomaidi is a documentary photographer from Greece, based in Athens. Member of Hans Lucas agency since 2018.
Interested in the relation between people and their territory, in her personal practice she pursues long-term projects exploring social and environmental issues. Her work often focuses on subjects with a special relation to memory, self-determination and resistance.
Her work A Zone To Defend has been shown in Helsinki Photo Festival 2019 (winner of the Open Call #Anarchy), as well as at the Young Greek Photographers exhibition in the context of the Athens Photo Festival 2019 and was also screened at the VOIES OFF in Arles in 2018. With the same project she won the 1st prize of Spéos Awards 2018 #Reportage and was a finalist of La Bourse du Talent 2018 #Landscape.
She is a graduate of “Creative Documentary and Photojournalism” one-year masterclass programme coordinated by Magnum Photos and Spéos International School of Photography in Paris (2018) with a background in Fine Arts, holding a Masters Degree in Artistic Production and Research from the University of Barcelona and a BA in Plastic Arts and Art Sciences from the University of Ioannina, Greece. Before fully committing to photography, she gained professional experience in graphic design and communication. Co-founder of WHAT IF Design Studio in Athens since 2013.
Her photography has been published in print and online media in Greece, France and Ireland. While her artistic work has been shown in exhibitions in Greece, Spain and Brazil.