Eirini Vourloumis is an artist, director and photojournalist. She was born in 1979 and raised in Athens, Greece and is of Greek and Indonesian background. Vourloumis is a graduate of Parsons School of Design and of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York.
She began her career as a contributing photographer for the New York Times Metro section and is currently freelancing for various international publications from Greece, focusing on covering the ongoing economic and refugee crises. She has also contributed as a writer for Lens, the New York Times photojournalism blog.
Her current personal work has shifted from pure reportage and combines a documentary and conceptual photographic approach, in which she explores social and political environments to reflect their dynamic within the context of the economic crisis in her home country.
Her reportage clients include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Time, Le Monde, Business Week, and The Guardian, among others. She has exhibited at the Bozar Museum in Brussels, the Martin Gropius Bau Musuem in Berlin and the Benaki Museum in Athens. Her photographs have been acquired by the Dakis Joannou Collection and her first book, In Waiting, was released in October 2017 by the German publisher Hatje Cantz. Vourloumis is a member of the Greek Depression Era collective.
SOLO EXHIBIITIONS
2022
National Contemporary Museum of Art, Athens
'In the Same Space'
A photographic dilaogue with the paintings of
Andreas Vourloumis
2019
Onassis Cultural Center, Athens
Flash Forward Festival
'The Mermaid Madonna'
In colloboration with Wu Tsang
Screening: One Emerging From a Point of VIew
2018
Martin Gropius Bau Museum, Berlin
'In Waiting'
In House with Wu Tsang
Benaki Art Museum, Athens
'In Waiting’, Book exhibition
The Photographer’s Gallery, London,
‘In Waiting’, screening and book launch
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
National Contemporary Museum of Art, Athens
'Statecraft' curated by Katerina Gregos
2019
Benaki Museum, Athens
The DESTE Foundation and New Museum, New York
'The Same River Twice' : Contemporary Art in Athens
Photo Espana Festival, Madrid
Offland
'The Mermaid Madonna'
Sharjah Bienniel 14
Exhibit: 'The Mermaid Madonna'
In colloboration with Wu Tsang
Screening: One Emerging From a Point of VIew
'Photography in Crisis', Depression Era, Slought Institute, Philadelphia
2018
'Photo-graphé', Benaki Museum, Athens
'The Tourists', Depression Era, Unseen Amsterdam
2017
‘The Decline of Heroes', Depression Era, Antikenmuseum, Basel,
2016
'On Elite Now', Kypseli Municipal Marketplace, Athens
2015
‘Depression Era', Athens Biennale, Bagkeion Hotel, Athens,
'Greek Stories Revisited', China Lishui Photography Festival, China
‘Depression Era', Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece
2014
‘Depression Era', Hungarian Month of Photography, Budapest
'Depression Era', Le Mois de la Photo, Paris
‘Depression Era', Benaki Museum, Athens
‘Lens Culture Emerging Talents’, Barcelona
‘Tokyo International Photography Festival Competition 2014’,Tokyo,
New York
‘Greek contemporary Art In Times of Crisis’
Bozar Museum of Fine Art- Brussels, Belgium
1%: Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality
Collection of photographers (one image)
Published by Hatje Cantz edited by Myles Little
Travelling show
2018 Samek Art Museum, Lewisburg, USA
2017 University of Virginia—Charlottesville Charlottesville, USA
fosfeniLAB Padua, Italy
Médiathèque du Pays de Sierentz Sierentz, France
Photival Photographic Festival Wellington, New Zealand
2016 Addis Foto Fest, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Just Another Photo Festival, Varanasi, India
Chavonnes Battery Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
The Eye – International Photography Festival, Aberystwyth, Wales
Organ Vida Festival Zagreb, Croatia
Brown University Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Providence, USA
AMURAL Festival Brasov, Romania
OBSCURA Festival George Town, Malaysia
Uri-Eichen Gallery, Chicago, USA
Voies Off :: Arles, Arles, France
LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph( projection) Charlottesville,,VA
Athens Photo Festival Athens, Greece
Transphotographiques Lilles, France
Head On Photo Festival Sydney, Australia
Magazzini Fotografici Naples, Italy
Gage Gallery at Roosevelt University Chicago, USA
Balkan Photo Festival Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Rendez-vous Image Strasbourg, France
2015 International Photography Festival GuatePhoto, Guatemala City, Guatemal
Lishui International Photography Festival, Lishui, China
Lagos Photo (Satellite Exhibit) Lagos, Nigeria
Fotodoks Festival (Satellite Exhibit), Munich, Germany
Browse Gallery, Berlin, Germany
East Wing Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
BOOKS
2017 In Waiting, Published by Hatje Cantz ( November)
42 illus. 100 pages. Essays by James Estrin and Panos Kokinnias
2015 1%: Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality
Collection of photographers (one image)
Published by Hatje Cantz edited by Myles Little
AWARDS RECOGNITION
2015 British Journal of Photography
Ones to Watch Issue - 25 Emerging Photographers
Tokyo International Photography Festival Competition
Travelling exhibit of 8 winners Tokyo, NY, Berlin
2014 Duke Documentary Studies Competition
Finalist
Lens Culture
Emerging Talent
PDN Annual
Best imagery of 2014
2013 Emerging Photographer series
Photo booth-New Yorker
2012 American Photography- American Illustration
Annual Photography Book
2006 American Photography - American Illustration
Annual Photography Book 2006