Angela Christofilou is from Lancashire, England, and Athens, Greece, and is based in London. She works as an actor, voice-over artist, singer and photographer.
Her photography work is self-taught and explores themes of community, human rights, climate justice, and gender-based violence, as well as family, gender, ageism, and sexuality. Since 2015, she has been documenting protests and social movements such as women's rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, anti-racism, workers' rights, environmental justice, migrant justice, animal rights, and more. The majority is archived at the Bishopsgate Institute. She has also worked with many campaign groups, including Greenpeace, Migrants Organise, Fossil Free London, Pregnant Then Screwed, Women’s March, Uplift - Stop Rosebank, and Labour Behind the Label.
Her work appears in exhibitions, books, magazines, newspapers documentaries, and talks, engaging communities and youth, advocating photography's role in social change. Exhibitions include 'Photographing Protest: Resistance through a Feminist Lens' at Four Corners Gallery and 'Out and About! Archiving LGBTQ+ History' at the Barbican Centre.
In 2023, Angela received the 'Portrait of Britain' award from the British Journal of Photography, featured in 'Portrait of Humanity' and 'Portrait of Britain' by Hoxton Mini Press. Her recent book, "Church Bingo," published by Pendle Press, celebrates Heywood's elderly community spirit and highlights fading cultural traditions in a post-pandemic, post-Brexit Britain.
More in detail below.
Exhibitions
Kaan K & Angela Christofilou: ‘The land isn’t binary and neither am I’ exhibition at MOMA Machynlleth, Wales (coming soon: 16th November 2024 — 18th January 2025)
‘Portrait of Britain’ award (for ‘Coffee Mornings’ image from Church Bingo series) British Journal of Photography - Annual photography exhibition on screens and billboards across the UK, in partnership with JCDecaux (January 2023)
PWER POBL (PEOPLE POWER) - Exhibition + Tour - The Workers Gallery, Porth, Wales (November 2022 - January 2023)
‘Out and About! Archiving LGBTQ+ history at Bishopsgate Institute’ - Barbican Centre, London (Mon 28 Feb—Mon 21 Mar 2022)
‘Photographing Protest: Resistance through a Feminist Lens’ - Four Corners Gallery, London (Fri 18 March 2022 – Sat 7 May 2022)
‘The Resistance Exhibition - a multimedia exhibition - 40+ years of protest and social change movements’ - touring Glastonbury Festival, Green Gathering and Boomtown Fair Festival (June + July + November 2022)
‘Stop Watching Us!’ Immigration Reporting and protest exhibition + panel by Migrants Organise - at Rabbits Road Press, London (Fri 17th June + Sat 18th June 2022)
‘Humans of Regent’s Park’ exhibition - Camden People’s Theatre (2019)
‘Through The Lens’ Festival of Photography 2018, Hastings (2018)
Publications / Books
‘Church Bingo’ Photographs by Angela Christofilou - by Pendle Press
Contributor to ‘Road Less Travelled Vol 1’, by Road Less Travelled Press / Tamara Stoll
‘Portrait of Britain’ Vol. 5 - British Journal of Photography - by Hoxton Mini Press
‘Portrait of Humanity’ Vol 5 - British Journal of Photography - by Hoxton Mini Press
Media
Regular features of photography-related articles in The Independent. Additionally, features include the British Journal of Photography, The Guardian, Big Issue Australia, It’s Nice That, Creative Boom, Bricks, Aesthetica, Flux, Buzz Magazine, Dazed, Screen_Time Zine, Antivirus, iNews, Vice UK, and Freedom News/Press.
Documentaries
Images featured in:
‘The potential to reimagine incarceration’ - The Open University, produced by Hamlett Films, 2023
‘Unseen Skies’, a documentary film directed by Yarra Bou Melham with artist Trevor Paglen, produced by In Films & Participant, 2021
Talks + Workshops + Presentations
SE(e)-ing spaces, a project exploring young photographers' perspectives on South East London's rapid changes and housing issues through photography. (2023)
Photographing Protest: Maggie Murray and Angela Christofilou in Conversation
Women’s History Month - Four Corners Gallery, London (2021)Street Photography and Protest, Queen's Park Camera Club, Glasgow (2020)
Activism and Photojournalism Today, Photojournalism Hub - Imperial College Invention Rooms, London (2019)
Archive
Angela Christofilou Archive at the Bishopsgate Institute
Artist Residencies
In residency at Four Corners Gallery - FATHOM Residency - 2022
Contact
Email angelachristofilou@gmail.com
