Hello,  I am Eva, I was born in the beautiful island of Crete. After I was was awarded a Greek State Foundation scholarship I moved to the UK to complete a PhD in Arts and Communication at UCA. I hold a PGCE teaching certificate from the University of Brighton and I am an accredited life coach. I am currently based in Brighton working as a fine art photographer, photography mentor and creativity life coach.

In my artistic practice, I am not using the photographic medium to produce a record and a document of the world, which is what we usually expect to see in a photograph. I am using it to question the nature of photography and to cause tension in what we are looking at. I am playing between representation and abstraction. I was selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2008 exhibition among numerous solo and group shows.

My teaching experience spans the last 14 years in both 1-1 and group sessions, online and in-person. In parallel with my private teaching, I have been delivering a variety of adult education courses at Evolution Arts since 2013 at beginner and intermediate level.

In the past, I have been teaching at Phoenix Art Space in Brighton in a similar role for five years running courses such as ‘Developing a Creative Photography Project’, ‘Building a Photography Portfolio’, ‘Curating a Photography Exhibition’ and ‘Abstraction, Photography and Play’, a course which has been the foundation for many of my students who attended my other courses and workshops as well.

I have also taught for WexPhotoVideo in London and I have been a visiting lecturer at the University for the Creative Arts and the Loxdale English Centre.

My private teaching varies in nature from providing study support to BA, MA, and Ph.D. students to supporting, mentoring and coaching adult learners and children, both in group and 1-1 sessions that aim towards covering any needs they have, from learning how to use their camera to helping them prepare for an exhibition.

My personal website

www.evakalpadaki.co.uk