Ioanna Sakellaraki is a Greek visual artist and researcher, born in 1989 in Athens. She studied media and communication at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, received an MA in European Urban and Cultural Studies from Manchester Metropolitan University, and graduated with an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art in London in 2020. She then completed a PhD at RMIT University in Melbourne (2021–2025).
Her work looks at collective cultural memory, fiction and the archive. Her first monograph, The Truth is in the Soil (GOST Books, 2022), grew from five years of work after her father’s death and looks at mourning traditions in Greece. Her later series form the trilogy Tales of Sea, Lust and Death, made between Greece and Australia.
She received the Royal Photographic Society Postgraduate Bursary Award in 2018 and was named Student Photographer of the Year at the Sony World Photography Awards 2020. Her work is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
