Olga Stefatou is a visual artist, photography mentor, and consultant based in Athens, Greece.
Her most recent photographic work is called East Eighteen: a collaboration with a Palestinian teenager who escaped war and he seeks a new life in Cairo. She is currenlty working on her first short film, a creative documentary titled As If I Had You Next To Me co-directed with Despina Ladi, funded by the Greek Film Institute and produced by Empty Square. Alongside her freelance practice, she works as a consultant at the new international photo competition Tloupas Path (since 2024), and she teaches documentary photography at Akto College in Athens.
Her artistic practice explores the concept of freedom in relation to geopolitics, heritage, and social structures. With a strong focus on gender issues and women’s rights, her visual language is rooted in documentary photography and storytelling, often incorporating elements of performance and self-portraiture.
Stefatou’s work has been exhibited internationally at institutions and art spaces including the Aga Khan Museum (Canada), Doha Fire Station Art Space (Qatar), MOMus Museum of Contemporary Art (Greece), Benaki Museum (Greece), Los Angeles Month of Photography, Head On Photo Festival (Australia), Les Boutographies (France), Negpos Gallery (France) Synthesis Gallery (Bulgaria) and Photon Gallery (Slovenia) among others. In 2024 her work A Pair Of Brand New Eyes has been nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnack award.
In parallel with her artistic practice, Stefatou has extensive experience in multimedia journalism, having collaborated with international media outlets such as Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, The Economist, NBC News, and Vanity Fair. In 2021, she was selected to photograph the DIOR Cruise 2022 collection alongside nine other Greek female artists. She also documented the pioneering Solar Impulse mission in 2015 – the first round-the-world flight powered entirely by solar energy.
Her past consultancy work includes a collaboration with Qatar Museums for the 2023 Tasweer Photo Festival and its permanent photography collection, 2018-2020. From 2014 to 2022, she served as the creative director of the Saristra Festival arts program on Cephalonia Island, Greece.
She studied photography at the University of West Attica and earned a Master’s degree in Multimedia Journalism from the University of Bolton in 2012, while living in Beijing, China.
Her creative space, atelier délos, located in Athens, serves as a hub for artistic expression – fostering creativity, collaboration, and community around photography and audiovisual arts.