SISIFOS

ART AS A THERAPEUTIC TOOL

SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATION
CREATED FOR THE PUBLIC SPACE
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH PROJECT

Angelos Christofilopoulos

Angelos Christofilopoulos studied photography at the Focus School of
Photography in Athens, graduated in 2000, and worked for ten years as a
freelance photographer mainly for Greek print media outlets.
Christofilopoulosʼ work includes portraits, reportage, theatre photography,
architectural photography. Among other work, he has documented the Lebanon
Israel conflict which escalated in a war in July 2006 and the Aftermath of that
war. He covered stories in Israel, Palestine and Kosovo.
When the economic crisis in 2010 hit Greece, and the media landscape
collapsed, he started to search for different ways to continue as a
photographer, he started to work with the Athens-based photo agency
Fosphotos, covering mostly the economic crisis and its effect in the society,
while working with foreign news agencies.
In 2015 he started to document the refugee crisis in Greece and the Balkan
region.
In 2016 he cofounded Athenslive, an innovative and crowdfunded media outlet.
He took part in the photo book “No direction Home” created by the Rosa
Luxemburg Foundation in Athens, and was part of the team who presented it in different cities in Germany.
https://rosalux.gr/en/publication/no-direction-home
In 2016 he was in invited to take part in a group exhibition in Berlin https://
hilbertraum.org/2016-fragments-of-a-broken-season
He took part in the first Athens Photoworld Festival in 2019, https://apw.gr/en/angelos-christofilopoulos/
He was selected to take part in the Blueborder project by Cafebabel Magazine
based in Berlin
https://blueborder.cafebabel.com/crete-the-last-shepherds/
In 2020 he had his first exhibition together with artist Maria Karathanou
specialized in site specific art projects. ACHRONIC, https://m.facebook.com/
Achronic-103922158006385/
Inspired by this Exhibition, together with Maria Maria Karathanou he developed the Project SISIFOS.