Myrto Tsilimpounidi

Myrto Tsilimpounidi is a social researcher and photographer. Her research focuses on the interface between urbanism, culture, and innovative methodologies. Current projects explore the dual crisis of representation—both the political crisis of loss of faith in representative democracy as well as arguments about the partial, time-bound, subjective frame of photographic representations. Another strand of her work engages with a queer feminist critique of the visual world.

She is the co-author of “Reproducing Refugees: Photographia of a Crisis” (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020); the author of “Sociology of Crisis: Visualising Urban Austerity” (Routledge, 2017); and the co-editor of “Street Art & Graffiti: Reading, Writing & Representing the City” (Routledge, 2017) and of “Remapping Crisis: A Guide to Αthens” (Zero Books, 2014). Myrto has engaged in research with cοmmunities in Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, the UK, Slovakia, Hungary, and Greece. Her photographic work has been exhibited in many venues around the world and she is also using the city as an open gallery placing work on urban walls.

She is the co-director of the Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research in Αthens and is currently developing the Feminist Film School (FFS), a project of the Centre.