Olga Stefatou is a visual artist and photography consultant. She travels worldwide for projects and returns to her creative base in Athens, her new studio, the atelier délos.
Stefatou has exhibited her work in Aga Khan Museum (CA), Doha Fire Station Art Space (QA), Los Angeles Month of Photography, Head On (AU), Les Boutographies (FR), Benaki Museum (GR), Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale (GR), Athens Photo Festival (GR), Gallery Negpos (FR), Photon Gallery (SI) and Synthesis Gallery (BG) among others.
She has an extensive experience in multimedia journalism, collaborating with international media such as Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, The Economist, NBC News, and Vanity Fair, among others. In 2021 she was selected to photograph the DIOR Cruise 2022 collection with nine other Greek female artists. In 2015 she documented as a crew member the pioneering Solar Impulse mission – the round of the world using only solar power. In 2011 she directed three short documentary films for the award-winning collective multimedia project The Prism GR2011.
Stefatou has a close collaboration with Qatar Museums, most recently curating the Live Program for the 2023 Tasweer Photo Festival. She is the creative director of the Saristra Festival Arts program, a festival celebrating music and arts on Cephalonia Island, Greece.
She studied photography at the University of West Attica, and in 2012 she earned her Master’s degree in Multimedia Journalism from the University of Bolton, UK, while being based in Beijing, China, where she investigated and directed 16 short portrait based documentary films about domestic violence against women in China.