Marianna Karali
Marianna Karali holds a PhD in History and Archaeology from the University of Crete, specialising in art history and the history of Greek photography. She received the Parlamas Prize for her master’s thesis titled “The Person in the Picture: The Bourgeois Portrait Photography in Greece in the 19th Century”, as well as the A. Onassis Scholarship for her doctoral research entitled “Greece Depicted in State-Commissioned Photographs during the First Half of the 20th Century (1898–1940)”. She has worked as scientific personnel at the Photographic Archives of the National Gallery of Greece, as a postgraduate research fellow at F.O.R.T.H. / I.M.S., and as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Crete’s Research Centre for Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education. Additionally, she has taught History of Photography and Visual Culture at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Ioannina.
Her research interests primarily focus on the history and development of Greek photography between the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as the artistic and scientific perspectives in the evolution of Greek visual culture, and gender issues. She is the principal investigator of the H.F.R.I. programme “Photography as an Intercultural Mediator in Multimedia Production of Symbolic and Performative Antiquity Representations” (Acronym: Photographing Antiquity).