About

Kleopatra Haritou was born in Athens. 

She began her studies on Art Photography while a High school student in NY (Hastings-on-Hudson).  She continued her studies at Central S.Martins in London and acquired her MA degree at GOLDSMITH’S College, by the side of Ian Jeffrey, Historian of Art&Photography. 

She has realized several solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous group ones abroad and in Greece . She has been awarded by Pentax, Leica and Kodak in the United States and Europe. 

She is now in progress of filming her first documentary titled “The Praying Mantis”, sponsored and supported by the National Film Center and ERT, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation.

She is also in progress of presenting her new work “Entry-Exodus”,

and publish “AMENTI”, a study on the burial landscape of Tinos.

In 2012 she realized her large scale solo exhibition at the BENAKI Museum, Athens (“Prosfygika - The refugee settlements of Alexandra’s Av.”). The exhibition was also presented at the International Festival of Comics, in Athens, along with the original work of David Lloyd “V for Vendetta”. 

In 2016 she presented “Acrobats”, a series of ten large installations in public space. The series deals with the augmentation of drug addicts and homeless population of Athens during the depression era. 

Since 2012 she is part of R.I.C.E. team, a unique cultural initiative based on the island of Hydra (Greece). R.I.C.E brings together artists, thinkers and concerned individuals to envision human relations in order to respond meaningfully to the challenges of our times.

Her professional collaborations include Greek national organizations, such as the Greek Ombudsman, the National Dance School, the Historical Archives Museum etc

The past 25 years she has been working with film directors as a still photographer. (“Politiki Kouzina” by T.Boulmetis, “Worlds Apart” by Christopher Papakaliatis, “Hardcore” by Dennis Iliadis, Reppas/Papathanasiou, Giannaris, Astra Taylor etc).