Interviewee: Nicki Panou
Project: Mythography V
Instagram: @nickipanouphotography
Website: www.nickipanou.com
A self-taught photographer and digital artist based in Thessaloniki, Nicki Panou has a hybrid background spanning applied informatics, graphic arts and acting, a path that is reflected in the narrative nature of her work. Active in photography since 2013, she has exhibited in Greece and abroad, at the Photometria International Photography Festival, the CONTACT Photography Festival in Toronto and Trieste Photo Days. In 2024 she received first prize in the Self-Portrait category at the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards.
With the project Home, published in the volume Mythography V by Exhibit Around, she explores the universal yet deeply personal meaning of home. A series of six self-portraits taken in different rooms of the same house, in which domestic space becomes narrative territory, charged with intimacy and complexity. The images move through themes of solitude, memory and presence, and examine the role of women in the domestic space: their strength, their resilience, and the complexity of their identity.
Nicki Panou tells us how Home came to life and about her approach to photography.
