About
Rea Papadopoulou
Rea Papadopoulou is an architect, and photographer, born in Istanbul, moved to Greece on a very young age, lives and works in Athens. She studied Architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & attended several workshops on Photography, including a 2-year theoretical classes at the Fine Arts School of Athens. She is working on long-term photographic projects examining mainly environmental, social, and urban issues.
Her photography projects have been selected and presented in Greek and International Festivals such as Photo Biennale of Thessaloniki Museum of Photography 2021, AFI at Varese Italy 2019, Photometria at Ioannina Greece in 2015 & 2018, and Encontros Da Imagem, Braga Portugal in 2017 where ‘Dark Tree’ was finalist project of the Discovery Award. She has also participated in several solo and group exhibitions, while her works have been included in print and digital editions.
Exhibitions,
2024, ‘The Girls Are Sleeping Upstairs’ at the group exhibition ;Her Stories’ ‘at the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography
2022, Disturbed Soil and The Lake you don’t See are exhibited at the group show ‘landscape stories’ at the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography
2021, ‘Dark Tree’ is Selected and exhibited within PhotoBienalle of Momus, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, at Thessaloniki Museum of Contemporaty Art
2021, ‘Dark Tree’ solo exhibition at DL Gallery Piraeus Greece
2021, ‘Dark Tree’ is among the 12 finalist projects for the Prize of 2022 Photo Brussels Festival
2019, ‘The Lake You Don’t See’ is selected for the projection of Encontros da Imagem festival Braga Portugal
2019, Dark Tree was selected and exhibited at AFI festival, Castelo di Masnago Varese Italy
2018, The Girls Are Sleeping Upstairs At Benaki Museum Athens, at the group exhibition ‘Photo-Graphy’ curator Maria Nicolakopoulou
2018, The Girls Are Sleeping Upstairs At Melanythros Gallery Athens, solo show
2018 ‘The Lake You Don’t See’ is selected for the Photo Europe Network (PHEN) and exhibited at Photometria Festival Ioannina Greece
2017 ‘Dark Tree’ is selected for the Discovery Awards 2017 and exhibited at the Encontros da Imagem Festival Braga Portugal
2017 ‘Dark Tree’ at DL Gallery, Pireaus, at the group show ‘Local Stories’ curator: Nina Kassianou
2015 ‘The Girls Are Sleeping Upstairs’ at Athens House of Photography – solo show
2015 ‘Halki’, Athinais Athens, at the group show ‘6 Photographers – 6 countries’
2015 ‘The Girls Are Sleeping Upstairs’ & ‘Halki’, Photometria Festival Greece – solo show
2014 ‘The Girls Are Sleeping Upstairs’, Tinos – solo show
Publications
2021, ‘Dark Tree’ self-published in 100 numbered copies
2018 The Girls Are Sleeping Upstairs book cover for two books of Kastanioti Publications anniversary editions
2017 Dark Tree in Encontros Da Imagem Festival Catalogue
2016 Halki in the book ‘The Theological School of Halki, The Building and its Restoration’
2016 Mesi, The Lake you Don’t See at http://www.wip.gr/issues/Wip19.pdf issue : Landscape, Geography – Autobiography – Metaphor
2015 The Girls Are Sleeping Upstairs at the Eye of Photography
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