173 - Eva Voutsaki
© Eva Voutsaki
Eva Voutsaki is a Greek photographer and educator based in Brighton, England. She spent her early childhood in Drakona, a small village in Crete, before moving to Chania aged 15 to attend a better school.
Eva holds a degree in Law, an MA in Photography, a foundation in Art Therapy and a PGCE in Further Education.
Mythology, memory, fantasy and the unconscious form the basis for her creativity. Her project Traces Within, self published as a handstitched book in 2020, has been awarded honourable mentions at the 2008 and 2009 PX3 Paris Photography Prize competition and has been internationally recognized and exhibited at the 2009 Arles juried festival Voies Off, 2010 Rome Fotografia Festival at the MACRO Museum of Contemporary Arts, BOM gallery in Seoul, Menier and HOST gallery in London, among other places.
Since 2008, Eva has been working collaboratively and intergenerationally on the family archives of her village Drakona in Crete. Her book dummy Family Photo Sketch Book: The Drakona Block was selected as a finalist for the 2014 Kassel International Photobook Dummy Award and in 2015 Eva was selected for the Magnum Professional Practice Masterclass in London.
On episode 173, Eva discusses, among other things:
Burnout
Academia
The importance of walking
Subjective photography
Her childhoom in Crete
How she ended up studying law and becoming a Solicitor
The importance of therapy
Her book, Traces Within
Her interest in maths
Imposter syndrome
Poetry
Adventures in self-publishing
The pretentiousness of the photo industry
Her father and grandfather and transgenerational trauma
Her brother, who survived a climbing accident
Forthcoming projects A Human’s Tale and Drakonians
Referenced:
Emily Macaulay at Stanley James Press
Ramon Reverte at Editorial RM
“I’m a farmer’s daughter and I know how to grow my own food, and I feel confident in the field or under trees. But then when I go in a gallery and there’s an opening and it’s loud and there’s alcohol and this pretentiousness… I don’t get it. I don’t get it. It’s just disgusting, seriously.”
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