Dr. Nina Kassianou holds a PhD in the History and Theory of Photography from Panteion University in Athens. She also received a scholarship from Princeton University, USA, to conduct research on photographic archives related to the Greek Civil War and the Greek Resistance against Nazi occupation.

For over a decade, she contributed as a photo book critic to the Sunday edition of the prestigious Greek newspaper To Vima. She has been an esteemed portfolio reviewer at numerous major photography festivals across Europe.

She has curated over 100 exhibitions featuring renowned artists both in Greece and internationally and has edited numerous photobook publications. She has collaborated extensively with the Photographic Center of Skopelos and the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, where she worked for more than ten years. She authored numerous academic essays and articles on the history of Greek and European photography, and contributed to the encyclopedia The History of European Photography 1900-2000, by writing the section on Greek photography.

She also served as the artistic director of the M55 Projects Gallery in Athens, a dynamic space dedicated to fostering creative exchanges between European and Greek photographers and curators. In addition, she has collaborated with various galleries in Athens.

For the past five years, she has been the Photography Director at DL Gallery in Piraeus, Greece, curating both solo and international group exhibitions.

She organises for the last six years the Return2Ithaca artist residency program held on her native island of Ithaca. (www.return2ithaca.gr)