Biography
Pepi Loulakaki was born in Plaka, in the historical center of Athens.
She became interested in photography from a very young age, and began her career as a freelance photographer, parallel to her studies, proposing cover stories to Epsilon magazine of Sunday Eleftherotypia newspaper as early as 1992.
Since then, on her own initiative, she has photographed a large number of social and socio-political themes across Europe, the Middle East and the Balkans.
She is particularly interested in the rights of women, children, gender equality, and in environmental issues of our time. A large part of her tireless photographic activity consists of portraits of the most influential personalities, artists and scientists of our time.
Since 2000, she has collaborated with “K” magazine of Kathimerini newspaper, as well as other print and electronic media and organizations. Her photographic work has been exhibited in Greece and abroad.
In 2010, Kastaniotis Editions released her photobook on Thrace titled: “So close, so far away. The Muslim world of Thrace.” The book’s photographs were exhibited at the Benaki Museum in 2013.
In the months of April-July 2024, she participated with 48 works of “Portraits of Women” in the Women of the World (WOW) Festival, produced by the Cultural Center of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
For the past 15 years, she has also been photographing musicians from the world music scene, photographs of hers being featured on album covers and magazines, parallel to giving lectures on photography.
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