Dimitra Lazaridou
“Collective memory and human isolation are themes uniting Lazaridou’s works. In an attempt to erase boundaries, she collapses the emotional distance between camera and subject, thus capturing the reality of the excluded, the abandoned and the castaway.”
— Tina Sotiriadi, Art in America, 2003
Dimitra Lazaridou, Untitled (Without Borders Series), 2005, C-print mounted on aluminum, Edition 3/3, 61.5 x 48.75 in
Dimitra Lazaridou is a Greek photographer born in Alexandroupolis, Greece, in 1966, who lives and works in Athens. She studied visual communications at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, where she received her diploma and completed Meisterschüler studies. Lazaridou’s photographs transform urban architecture, light, and shadow into psychological landscapes marked by absence, solitude, and surreal intensity. Influenced by the Bauhaus and her studies in Berlin, she depicts city spaces as charged terrains where blank facades, cast shadows, and timeless architectural forms become vessels for inner experience. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions in Greece, Italy, and the United States, and in group exhibitions at venues including the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Théâtre de la Photographie et de l’Image in Nice, Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, and Fondazione Mudima in Milan.