Ioanna Sakellaraki
The Truth is in the Soil
The series started evolving when the death of my father sparked a journey back home and the exploration of traditional Greek funerary rituals. Making a work about grief requires a journey through memory and memory loss. In the crossroads of performance and staged emotion, I aim to look at how mourning contextualises modern regimes of looking, reading, and feeling with regards to the subject of death. A language of thought that is spoken elliptically emerged to become the mark of a fragmentary dialogue with the endless tracing of loss. To me, these images work as vehicles for mourning perished ideals of prosperity and belonging, attempting to tell something further than their subjects by creating a space where death can exist.
Daniel Bracken • Tris Bucaro • Nadja Ellinger • Mara Gajic • Ruijing Ge • Roei Greenberg • Godith Hawkins • Qian Jiang • Lunhua Kong • Tom Medwell • Jonas Mlejnek • Thomas Moen • Ioanna Sakellaraki • Yilin Shi • Jukan Tateisi • Constanza Valderrama • James Wilde • Lidan Yang • Sine Zheng •
University for the Creative Arts
MFA Photography
Falmouth University
MA Photography
London College of Communication
MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography
Ulster University
MFA Photography
University of Westminster
MA Photography Arts
University of Westminster
MA Documentary Photography & Photojournalism