Artist Statement
My work’s theme is self-documentation.
I photograph /video my life, the environment I am in and the people I share it with at certain times when I feel that a moment needs to be captured.
There are also cases where I stage a photograph
in order to portray what I need to express at that time of my life.
I find interest in self-portraits and depicting situations that I share with others.
In order for me to photograph something or someone, there has to be a sense of connection. Creating an atmosphere between them and me
so that the final outcome will display parts of us.
A mix of selves into one image.
Returning to an innocence where we feel comfortable displaying
a self and its own shadows as something natural.
I always tend to interpret personal feelings by depicting non-human subjects. I generally photograph anything that intrigues me.
Whether it is a place, an object, an animal or a person.
Through this body of work I aim to capture moments of self -exploration. Anthropology, psychology, poetry, symbolism, intimacy and memories, all these are subjects that this project examines.
As well as , people’ s relations with themselves, with others, with the environments surrounding them and with notions such as time ,change, death and life.
My Bio Note
Lily Zoumpouli was born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1994.
She started photographing when she was 15 years old.
She uses digital & analogue cameras as well as polaroids. Her photographs were taken mostly in Greece and in the UK where she lived and studied Fine Art, as well as of other places she travelled to such as Denmark, Germany, Ireland and more.
Honours
Honourable Mention & Shortlisted For Gomma Grant 2019 Photography series entitled ”Selinophilia”
Runner Up For Fujifilm/Young Talent Award 2017
as part of the 2017 Emerging Photographer Fund. Photography series entitled ”Selinophilia”
Shortlisted For Gomma Grant 2016
Photography series entitled ”Selinophilia”
Selected By LensCulture Editors As One Of The
Favourite Conceptual And Fine Art Photo Series 201
Selected Exhibitions
2022 Lily Zoumpouli Solo Exhibition Grosskind Gallery Nuremberg, Germany
2020 Inner Beauty Corinth International Photography Festival ,Greece
2019 Young Greek Photographers, Thessaloniki Photography Museum ,Greece
2019 Fototeca Syracusana Festival ,Syracuse, Italy
2019 La Nuu Festival , Ruby Spain
2019 Culture Hacks ,London UK
2018 Showboat , Streamship London , UK
2018 Lily Zoumpouli: Anthropology”Solo Exhibition, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland
2018 3 Photographers 3 Narrations from Thessaloniki Livadia Photography Club, Greece
2017 Photo Boite: 30 Under 30, Women Photographers of 2017
2016 Environmental Fertile , Balkan Photography Fest, Turkey, Greece
2016 Atonal Collective, Interzone Gallery, Rome, Italy
2015 Young Greek Photographers, Athens Photo Festival, Greece
2015 “Home”, The Delmar Gallery, Ashfield, NSW, Australia
2014 Personal Mythologies, Cork Fest, Ireland
2013 Discolouration Solo Exhibition MIET Cultural Foundation, Thessaloniki, Greece
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