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Dimitra Dede is a London and Athens based, visual artist working mainly with photography. She studied photography and holds a postgraduate diploma in New Media. Her work has been presented in galleries, museums and festivals in Europe, USA and Asia. Her book ‘Mayflies’ was nominated for the Author Book Award at the Rencontres d’Arles Book Awards 2020 and for the Unseen Dummy Award 2018 at the Unseen Festival, Amsterdam. Her book ‘Apeiron’ was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Foundation Photography Prize 2023 and the Author Book Award at the Rencontres d’Arles Book Awards 2022.

SELECTED AWARDS

2022 – Deutsche Börse Foundation Photography Prize 2023, Nomination for Apeiron
2022 – Author Book Award finalist – ‘Apeiron’, The Rencontres d’Arles Book Awards
2020 – Author Book Award finalist – ‘Mayflies’, The Rencontres d’Arles Book Awards
2020 – Best books of the year, ‘Mayflies’, Blake Andrews
2019 – Best books of the year, ‘Mayflies’, Simon Baker
2018 – Unseen Dummy Award finalist, ‘Mayflies’, Unseen Festival Amsterdam

BOOKS

Metaphors monograph published by Void
Apeiron monograph published by Origini Edizioni
Mayflies monograph published by Void
Preto 12, Cloro, Dimitra Dede, Guido Gazzilli published by Preto
A study of Mayflies zine published by Void
Spew VIII book published by Spewedtion
Found and Lost published by Void/Float Gallery
Nostalgia published by Bad to the Bone and Void
Faux published by the Center for Fine Art Photography
Color Show published by Black Box Gallery
Fishey Photo Review 2020.21 published by Fishey Gallery

COLLECTIONS

MoMA Library, USA
Galerie le Chateau d”Eau Museum, France
Falmouth University Library, UK
Bolland Library, University of the West of England, UK
University of the Arts London Library, UK
Galerie le Chateau d”Eau Library, France
Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, USA
Cornell University Library, USA
Princeton University Library, USA
Missouri State University Library, USA
Med Photo Fest, Greece
Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum, Georgia
ISSP, Latvia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 – Apeiron exhibition, Galerie le Château d’Eau, France
2021 – Mayflies exhibition, Adorna Gallery, Portugal
2021 – Apeiron exhibition, Spot Home Gallery, Italy

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023 – Arte Fiera, Bologna
2022 – Festival Les Nuits Photo, Paris
2022 – Apeiron exhibition, Galerie le Château d’Eau, France
2021 – Mayflies exhibition, Adorna Gallery, Portugal
2021 – Apeiron exhibition, Spot Home Gallery, Italy
2021 – La Nuu Festival, The light of the words, Rubi
2021 – Museum of Fishery & Shipbuilding, The Green Path, Athens
2021 – Palais du Gouvernement, Mayflies, Nancy
2019 – Athens Photo Festival, The Other Sons and Daughters, Athens
2019 – Belfast Photo Festival, Mayflies, Belfast
2018 – Benaki Museum, Photo-graphē, Athens
2018 – Unseen Festival, Mayflies, Amsterdam
2018 – La Nuu Festival de Fotografia, Viscera, Spain
2018 – Obscura Festival, Viscera – Mayflies, George Town
2018 – Cosmos, Family of No Man, Arles
2017 – Float Gallery, Found and lost, Athens
2016 – Void Art Space, Mayflies,  Athens
2016 – Center for Fine Art Photography, Faux, Colorado
2015 – Black Box gallery, Color show, Portland
2014 – Brighton Photo Biennial, Night Contact, Brighton