Born in 1989, in Kavala, Greece.
Lives and works in Athens.


In her work, a personal experience or event, real or imaginary, is the starting point for fragments' stitching and the composition of tales, where the irrational, the reasonable, the uncanny and the secret may coexist harmoniously.

Founder of CHORA ATELIER.


EDUCATION

2016 - 2019 
Instead IV: Parapoesis, Postgraduate Program, Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
2011 - 2015
Stereosis School of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece

2011 - 2011 
Faculty of Fine Arts, Erasmus Program, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

2007 - 2015
Faculty of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 


AWARDS

2022     FUTURES, nominated by VOID
2020     Artworks SNF - Artist Fellowship
2019     Extinction: The world without us, Urbanautica
2018     30 Under 30 Women Photographers 2018, Artpil + Photo Boite
2017     Winner at Summer Call, Phroom
2017     Young Greek Photographer, APhF17


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023    COLD TURKEY, Photographic Encounters, Ottoman Hammam Katre Street, Chania, Crete, GR [solo exhibition]
2023    COLD TURKEY, Photopolis Festival, Old Municipal Market, Agrinio, GR
2022    Expressions of Light, Katikies Garden, Fira, Santorini, GR
2021    ΔΑΙΔΑΛΑ / DAEDALA, installation, Anoixta Pania, Yiali Tzamisi, Chania, Crete, GR
2021    Pendulum, ‘Open circle, Lived relation’, Festival Panoràmic, Granollers, SP
2021    Cold Turkey, Photobook Boom: The Greek Case, Photobiennale, Thessaloniki, GR
2021    Pendulum, Le Livre Sur La Place, Palais de Gouvernement, Nancy, FR
2021    Athens Art Book Fair, with Zoetrope, Municipal Market, Kypseli, Athens, GR
2019    Sikinos Vol.II, Athens Zine Biblioteque in collaboration with Zoetrope, Síkinos, GR
2019    Pendulum, Photobook Exhibition, Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum / Pireos 138, Athens, GR
2019    Plateau 034 / An exploration of Greek self-published photobook, Zoetrope, Kimolou 17, Athens, GR
2019    Young Greek Photographers | 2010-2018 - Exhibition at MoMus Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, GR
2018    30 Under 30 Women Photographers 2018, Maison de la Photographie, Lille, FR
2018    30 Under 30 Women Photographers 2018, Galerie Claude Samuel / Viaduc des Arts, Paris, FR
2018    Cold Turkey, Screening, Circulation(s): Young European Photography Festival, Paris, FR
2018    Pendulum,  Critical Archives III: Identities,  Medphoto Festival, CCA, Rethymno, GR
2017    Cold Turkey,  Crete: Stories from the Edge, Medphoto Festival,  Herakleio, GR
2017    The Sense of an Ending,  CAN Gallery, Athens, GR
2017    Alcanzar la cima, Begira Photo, Carpa de Askondo, Iurreta (Bizkaia), Durango, SP
2017    Inert Substance, Still Searching, Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, GR
2017    Pendulum, Young Greek Photographers, Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, GR
2016    Something Prominent, Stereosis Screening, Medphoto Festival, Rethymno, GR

2016    Jaguar Sun, Photobook Exhibition, Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, GR
2016    Jaguar Sun, Libreria Polarville, L'Aquila, IT [solo exhibition]


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Kapa Magazine - Kathimerini #971, January 2022
Lifo #670, January 2021
Exantas #30, December 2019
Urbanautica - Extinction: The world without us, 2019
C41 Magazine #8 - Memory, July 2019
Chronostasis - Giorgos Varoutas, by ReR Megacorp, January 2018
Camera Infinita #6, January 2018
Square Magazine #803, October 2017
Life Sideways Magazine #4, December 2014


SELECTED INTERVIEWS

Chaniotika Nea / by Dimitris Maridakis / Gr / 2023
Cercle Magazine / by Louise Cronenberger / En - Fr / 2023
Artworks Medium / by Christina Petkopoulou / En / 2023
All cities are beautiful / by Alexandre Kurek / En / 2022
Pellicola Magazine / by Costanza Francesconi / En / 2019
It’s Nice That / by Rebecca Irvin / En / 2019
Poli - K / by Ioannis Kontos / Gr / 2019
Urbanautica / by Georges Salameh / En / 2019
Beater / by Sofia Topi / Gr / 2019
Photologio/ by Kelly Andreadi / Gr / 2018
Foto Room / by Graziano Ferri / En / 2017


SELECTED PRESS

Grandmama’s Print
The Greek Foundation
Edge of Humanity
GUP Magazine
Phroom Magazine
Current Athens
Lifo 1 & 2
Then There Was Us
Kaltblut Magazine
Phases
Landscape Stories
Aldebaran
Musée Magazine
Booooooom
iGNANT
Artpil
Artistas Sean Unidos
PHOSmag
Contributor Magazine
Kiosk der Demokratie
C41 Magazine
Another Place Magazine
Positive Magazine


RESIDENCY

2021    5th Artists in Residency in Eagles Palace, Chalkidiki, Greece


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Stefania Orfanidou