Despoina (Penny) Demertzi is a photographer - visual researcher and PhD student at Goldsmiths University of London, Department of Politics.
Penny holds a BA in Archaeology and History - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and an MA in Fine Arts (Honors) - MaHKU Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design, Utrecht, The Netherlands. She was awarded with Darmasiswa Scholarship to study Dance Art at ISI Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She collaborated with the Artists’ Initiative Ruang Rupa and she was the Artist in Residence at Ruang Me56 (Indonesian Contemporary Photography).
Penny studied photography under the photographer Stratos Kalafatis and she has attended seminars at Stereosis Photography. Her work was selected for photography / photobook workshops by Anders Petersen, Christian Caujolle, Atelier SMEDSBY by JH Engstrom -Margot Wallard, Antoine d’Agata (VOID Greece), FUAM (The Photography Application & Research Center - Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Istanbul, Turkey), Alex Bocchetto AKINA BOOKS.
She was selected participant photographer for the Studio Vortex by Antoine d’ Agata Residency Program, Studio Vortex, Arles, France (July 2022). During the residency program she composed and presented her photographic study: Decolonizing The Text: ”The Language of Flowers” Georges Bataille; On Synaesthetic Garden – On Labor.
