Konstantinos Ioannidis

Clark Fellow

06/11/2022–08/19/2022

Konstantinos Ioannidis is associate professor of theory and criticism of art at the Athens School of Fine Arts in Greece. Ioannidis has published essays on art history and theory in collective volumes and journals; a book titled Contemporary Greek Photography (Σύγχρονη Ελληνική Φωτογραφία, futura, 2008); and co-authored with Emmanouela Kantzia the book, Three at sea (Τρεις εν Πλω, MIET, 2018). More recently he has published An “exquisitely hybrid art”: poetics of photography in the late 19th and early 20th century (Μια “Υπερόχως Νόθος Τέχνη”: Ποιητικές της Φωτογραφίας. Τέλη 19ου-αρχές 20ού αιώνα, futura, 2019) for which he was awarded the State Award for Essay and Criticism (2020). For the past two years, Ioannidis has been researching a series of photographs of almost 2,000 Muslim prisoners held in the Smyrna Central Prison (1919–1922). At the Clark, he will be working on this material in order to articulate an argument on our responsibility towards the dead and on the ethics of attribution.