Daphne Kotsiani was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. She studied music and in recent years, she is focused on collaborating with ensembles of contemporary classical, electronic/experimental and improvised music, performing as a pianist in concerts and festivals in Greece and abroad. She has composed works for piano that have been recorded for audiovisual installations.
Except from music, she has developed a great interest in photography which she uses as a main medium of expression and exploration. Using analog and digital techniques, she shapes her personal feel/associations with the natural world and subject, creating images that explore the definition and origin of the poetic landscape as it relates to memory and time.
She has participated in solo and group exhibitions, photography festivals and fairs and her work has been published in various photo magazines.
She has self-published three photo books: “ ICELAND-In the Land of Ice and Fire ”, “ Beyond The Arctic Circle" and "After Echo".
PUBLICATIONS
9LIVES MAGAZINE
5 RUE DU.FR
L'INTERVALLE BLOG.FR
PHOTO.GR
PARALLAXIMAG.GR
PHOTOLOGIO.GR
IFOCUS.GR
THE POETIC ENCOUNTER
L’OEIL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE.FR
LUMINOUS EYE-INWARDS
FRESH EYES TALENT 2021
YOGURT MAGAZINE
ARTDOC PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINE
ANALOG FOREVER MAGAZINE
PHOTOLOGIO
INSIGHT PHOTO
KIOSK OF DEMOCRACY II
KIOSK OF DEMOCRACY I
LENSCULTURE
EXHIBITIONS
"DENSITY" - Duo Exhibition with Ilias Georgiadis
Interzone Galleria, Rome 23/3-27/4/2024
"LIGHT AND SHADOW" - Group Exhibition
The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow 2-23/12/2023
"CAPTURER L'AVENIR - La photographie à l'ère de l'intelligence artificielle" Group Exhibition
Salle Allatini-Dassault de l'Institut Français de Thessalonique,
Thessalonique 24/11- 9/12/2023
"INWARDS - Pause as a starting point of transformation" - Group Exhibition
Luminous Eye Gallery, Athens 12-28/11/2021
"FRESH EYES TALENTS 2021" - Collective Exhibition (GUP Magazine)
Rotterdam Photobook Market, Rotterdam 14-17/10/2021
"MOJO" - Group Exhibition (Yogurt Magazine)
Charta Festival, Rome 17-25/07/2021
"BEYOND THE ARCTIC CIRCLE" - Solo Exhibition
Laika, Thessaloniki 28/11/2018 - 15/01/2019
"Defying Limits - Daring Artists" Photo-Vision"
International Photography Exhibition
ApoDec, Thessaloniki 20-23/4/2017
"BEYOND THE ARCTIC CIRCLE" - Solo Exhibition
ToPikap, Thessaloniki 26/11-11/12/2016
Antiparos International Photo Festival- Group Exhibition
Kastro, Antiparos 2-11/07/2016
"MINIMAL" - Group Exhibition
Gallery 8, Thessaloniki 11/12/2015-29/1/2016
“Maybe nothingness is to be without your presence"
" Ίσως η απουσία να είναι παρουσία" - Group Exhibition
Alatza Imaret Art Gallery, Thessaloniki 12-29/12/2015
"BEYOND THE ARCTIC CIRCLE" - Solo Exhibition
Old School, Kioni, Ithaca 4-20/8/2015
"BEYOND THE ARCTIC CIRCLE" - Solo Exhibition
Cafe Nikis 35, Thessaloniki 24/2-27/4/2015
"WHEN PHOTOGRAPHY MEETS POETRY" - Group Exhibition
Drama's Arts and Culture Association - "Eleutheria" Gallery,
Drama 7-14/2/2015
"WHEN PHOTOGRAPHY MEETS POETRY" - Group Exhibition
PhotoArt, Thessaloniki 20-29/6/2014
"CONTRAST-3rd THESSALONIKI PHOTO FESTIVAL" - Group Exhibition
Alatza Imaret Art Gallery, Thessaloniki 9-28/2/2014
F.O.A.P.TH Annual Group Photo-Exhibition
School of Architecture of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 17/5-1/6/2013
"ART IS HARD" FESTIVAL - Group Exhibition
HELEXPO, Thessaloniki 26-28/4/2013
STEREOSIS Annual Group Photo Exhibition
Stereosis Gallery, Thessaloniki 10/2/2012