ANDRONIKI   CHRISTODOULOU

photo@androniki.com

+81 (0)80 4180 8935

Tokyo, Japan

Born in Thessaloniki, Greece

Following a successful career as a photographer in Greece and her work for the 2004 Athens Olympics as an assigned photographer of the Athens Olympic Commitee, she moved to Tokyo. Since then she works freelance on assignments for international magazines and newspapers and occasionally corporate clients. She also works on long term photography projects which are published in magazines or exhibited in galleries. Japan continues to be her main field but she is gradually expanding her work in other Eastern and Southeastern Asian countries.

STUDIES:

 “BA on Photography” at T.E.I. (Technological Educational Institution of Athens). Faculty of Art and Design department of Photography. Athens, Greece.

“Postgraduate Diploma on Photojournalism” at the London College of Printing. London, U.K.

WORK:

1995 Started working freelance, mainly as a documentary and portrait photographer.

2004 Worked as an accredited photographer for the organization of the Olympic Games ATHENS 2004, Athens Olympic Committee (ATHOC), photographing the Torch Relay and the Olympic Games in Greece.

Based in Tokyo since December 2004, working free lance for international magazines and newspapers such as The Independent, The Telegraph ,The Times and The Guardian UK newspapers, The Irish Times Irish newspaper, Der Volkskrant  Dutch newspaper, Eleftherotypia and Kathimerini Greek newspapers, The South  China Morning Post Hong Kong newspaper, Kapa and Epsilon Greek magazines, The Independent on Sunday UK magazine,  Businessweek US, Nouvele Observateur French magazine, Marie Claire Australia, TRANSIT magazine in Japan  and several other  publications

2009 Started teaching in workshops on photojournalism at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

EXHIBITIONS:

Solo :

2007  

TOKYO FETISH – Gallery FCB New York, USA.

2007

 MY TOKYO – The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

1998

ANASTENARIA (or firewalkers) – “Alaja Imaret”, during the PHOTOSYNKYRIA 10+1 photo festival. Thessaloniki. Greece

1994                               

EYES – “Mirovolos”. Thessaloniki. Greece

Group:

2010

25 YEARS AFTER - Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece

2010

THE OPEN MIND OF LEFCADIO HEARN : Homage to Lefkadio Hearn - Matsue Castle, Japan

2008-9

TOKYO YOUTH–  SHADO photographers’ collective exhibition at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan. Tokyo, Japan

2004

ATHENS 2004 Two of my photos of life in Athens were part of the exhibition organized by the “Athens Olympics 2004” in the city of Athens, covering the front of several buildings in the center of Athens. Athens, Greece

2003

SUBWAYS – Photos in the Athens, Tokyo and London metro – “THE SPIRIT OF GLOBALIZATION”. International exhibition at  the “Photography center of Skopelos island”, Skopelos, Greece.

2002

BEYOND THE DARKNESS - Blind National Greek Football team (as part of the FOOTBALLISSIMO group exhibition) – “Spitz Gallery”,  London, U.K.

2001

PALESTINE (as part of an exhibition organized by The Sunday Times for photojournalists who were finalists in the "Ian Parry Scholarship" photographic competition)– “Tom Blau Gallery”, London. U.K.

2001

LIFE ON THE EDGE – Women of the Intifada  – “London College of Printing”, London. U.K.

2001

KISS 9 – “Gallery K”, London. U.K.

1999

AVEBURY – “Art House”, Thessaloniki. Greece

1996                                 

ANASTENARIA (fragment) – “The Friday Play”. Athens. Greece

1996

RYTHMIK GYMNASTICS TRAINNING – during the “rhythmic gymnastic games of Kalamata”. Kalamata. Greece

1994                            

EYES (fragment) – “Moshato old factory”. Athens. Greece

 
AWARDS:

2009                        

PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR award from the annual photography contest of the Foreign Correspondent's Club of Thailand.

BOOKS:

2008                         

Cover photo for Hans Van Der lugt’s Geketende democratie book published by Prometheus publishing in Holland.

2004

Photos from the OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY published in a book about the International Torch Relay of the Athens Olympics 2004

2004

Photos from ATHENS, published in a book about Athens as part of the publications of the Athens Olympics 2004.

2002

Part of my work is published in a book on GREEK PHOTOJOURNALISTS – Greece.

 CD-COVER:

2007                            

Cover photo for the music CD THE RIVER AND THE FENCE of the band KEENE, released by Poeta Negra, independent record label in Greece.