About
Alina Saranti is a Greek photographic artist currently living in Los Angeles, having also lived in the UK and Turkey. Her work begins autobiographically and explores the synergies and tensions between text and image, the physical alteration of the photographic print, as well as themes of motherhood, place, our inner and outer landscapes, the personal and political.
After a ten-year career in journalism in Athens and London, writing mainly about international politics, she has shifted her focus to telling stories through photographic projects. Saranti received a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, an MSc in International Relations from London School of Economics, and an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (Distinction).
Saranti has won Director’s Prize at the Griffin Museum’s Annual Juried Members Exhibition, Honorable Mention at the Julia Margaret Cameron Award and at the Los Angeles Center of Photography’s Annual Members Exhibition. She has exhibited in galleries and museums in Athens, Barcelona, and New York. Her work has been featured in numerous publications including The Boston Globe, Opt West, Aesthetica Magazine, Source, Black River Magazine, Global Zoo Zine, and the Imagined Landscape Journal.
Education
2018-2020 MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (Distinction), London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
2002-2003 MSc International Relations, London School of Economics
1998-2001 BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
Distinctions
2024 Director’s Prize, Griffin Museum 30th Annual Juried Members Exhibition (Director Crista Dix, Juried by Mazie Harris)
2023 Honorable Mention, 20th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Fine Art Series Section (Juried by Elizabeth Avedon, Ann M. Jastrab and Elizabeth Krist)
2023 Honorable Mention, Personal Territory: Los Angeles Center of Photography Annual Members Exhibition (Juried by Andi Campognone)
2022 Athens Photo Festival - Finalist, Photobook Exhibition
2021 Belfast Photo Festival - Shortlisted
Exhibitions
2024 30th Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2024 20th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Fotonostrum, Barcelona, Spain
2023 Personal Territory: Los Angeles Center of Photography Annual Members’ Exhibition (online)
2022 Athens Photo Festival, Photobook Exhibition, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
2021 The Print Swap by Feature Shoot Exhibition, Foley Gallery New York, NY
2021 Re-Imagining Place (online)
2021 Source: Graduate Photography Online
2021 UAL Graduate Showcase
2021 Photograd Degree Show
Publications
2024 The Boston Globe
2024 Opt West Issue 3
2021 Imagined Landscape Journal
2021 Global Zoo Zine
2021 PGZ2021 magazine
2021 Black River Issue 01
2020 Aesthetica Magazine
Contact
All images on this site are protected by the United States and international copyright laws and are the exclusive property of Alina Saranti. No images are within Public Domain. Images may not be copied, published, reproduced, projected, manipulated, used or altered in any way without written permission from Alina Saranti. The use of any photography as the basis of another photographic concept or illustration is a violation of copyright.