The Photographer
Myrto Papadopoulos’s artistic practice focuses on in-depth narratives exploring documentary photography’s limits.
She continuously pushes the traditional boundaries of the medium, seeking to develop a new visual language that incorporates experimental tools and other forms of media.
Originally from Athens, Greece, Papadopoulos studied painting and photography at the School of Fine Arts of Aristotle University in Thessaloniki. In 2006, she pursued a degree in documentary photography at the International Center of Photography in New York and was granted a scholarship. Over the course of her career, Papadopoulos has worked with high-profile organizations and media outlets including Dior, National Geographic, Smithsonian, The New York Times, and Time Magazine among others.
She was an IMEDD fellow in 2019 and in 2021, supported by the Niarchos Foundation, and has been nominated for the Prix Pictet and the Magnum Foundation Grant.
/ selected exhibitions
2023 – 2024 – Art Residency Photoxenia, Crete – Mamidakis Foundation
2023 – The Benaki Museum – Spirits Unseen – Solo exhibition, Athens, Greece
2023 – PHmuseum Days 2023 – with work from Eleu sis – Bologna, Italy
2023 – National Museum of Modern Art EMST – Foodprint exhibition, Athens, Greece
2023 – Villa Pérochon, Niort – Centre D’Art Photographique D’intérêt National, Niort, France
2023 – The Benaki Museum – Mystery 29 “ The Raw Museum” – Eleusis Cultural Capital of Europe 2023, Athens, Greece
2022 – Athens Photo Festival – official section, The Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
2020 – Athens Photo Festival – curator of “The Journal Exhibition”, The Benaki Museum.
2019 – Athens Photo Festival – official section, The Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
2019 – PHotoESPAÑA, Madrid – OFFLAND, official section, Madrid, Spain
2018 – TBLISI Photo Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia
2016 – The Benaki Museum – People On The Move, Athens, Greece
2016 – MedPhoto Festival, Crete, Greece
2015 – Tositsa Foundation, Athens – Solo exhibition, Athens, Greece
2015 – Lishui Photography Festival, China
2014 – EU Parliament – Solo exhibition, Bruxelles, Belgium
2013 – Flash Forward Exhibition, Toronto & Washington DC
2011 – Athens Photo Festival – Solo exhibition, Athens, Greece
2011 – Dumbo Arts Festival – New York
2010 – LOOK3 Between Festival, Virginia, USA
2010 – Cedefop Photo Museum International Award – Archeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece
2010 – DUMBO Arts Festival, New York, USA
2009 – Festival Circulation(s) – Festival de la Jeune Photographie Européenne, Paris, France
2009 – Musee Qai Branly
/ selected lecturer:
– Hellenic Centre of Photography 2015 – Present, Athens, Greece
– Guest Lecturer for Princeton University Global Seminar program 2023, Athens, Greece
– Guest Lecturer at the photo department of The Athens School of Fine Arts, ASFA, Athens, Greece
– Key Lecturer and Head of Laboratory “Mystery 65 Reframe Elefsina” & Eleusis Culture Capital of Europe 2023, Elefsina, Greece
– National Museum of Modern Art, EMST – The Footprint Project 2023, Athens, Greece
– The Home Project – The Foodprint Project 2023, Athens, Greece
– Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation – The Foodprint Project 2023, Nicosia, Cyprus
– 6 x 6 Photographic Center 2023 – Limassol, Cyprus
– British Council & Unicef 2018 – Visual Narratives & The refugee crisis
– Arcadia University 2017 – On Journalism & Visual Narratives
– Positive Voice & AMAKA – The Attendants & The Reflower Project
– Mercy Corps 2016 – Visual Narratives & the Refugee Crisis
– Save the Children 2015 – Visual Narratives & the Refugee Crisis
/ selected speaker:
– National Technical University of Athens 2023, Athens
– TedNTUA 2023, Athens
– IRIDA VISIONS 2023, Athens
– IRIDA VISIONS – Moria 2023, Athens
– Athens Photo Festival 2019, Athens
– International Documentary Festival 2018, Thessaloniki
– Humanity in Action 2016, Athens
-Tedx Thessaloniki 2014, Thessaloniki
– EU Parliament 2014, Brussels
/ selected interviews – Television shows & Radio:
– ERT National Broadcast Television “Synginaixi” – Documentary series on female profiles 2022
– ERT National Broadcast Television 2018 – TEKMHRIA ELLINISMOU – “The New Plastic Road
– Greek National Public Radio 2023 – Simio Art
– Collective Eye – Podcast 2022
– Greek National Public Radio – DOC on Air 2018 – “The New Plastic Road”
/ selected interviews – articles:
– Book / Messy Ethics in Human Rights Work, The University of British Columbia
– National Geographic
– Die Zeit
– SPJ International
– VICE
– Mataora Magazine
– Greek media outlets: EL Culture, Ta Nea, Kathimerini, K Magazine, To Vima Magazine, Enet, CLOSE UP Magazine
