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173 - Eva Voutsaki

Ben Smith

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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

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