Nikos Panayotopoulos

Nikos Panayotopoulos was born in Athens in 1945. He studied photography in London, earning a BA from the Polytechnic of Central London, and later a PhD in Arts and Humanities from the University of Derby.

From 1986 he taught at the Photography Department of the Technological Educational Institute of Athens, retiring as Associate Professor of Art Photography in 2012. As an adviser to the Minister of Culture from 1994 to 2004, he coordinated the institutional development of photography in Greece. He has written extensively on photographic theory and criticism and organised many research projects, seminars, workshops and exhibitions.

With Penelope Petsini he created Restricted Areas (2010–14), shown at House of Lucie Athens: a study of Cold War memoryscapes in and around Berlin, from Stasi and KGB prisons to bunkers and nuclear shelters.