"Photography with sensitivity, strength and the commitment born of passion."
- The British Journal of Photography
Xenia Demetriou is a photographer, educator and the founder of eye4change, an award-winning charity empowering individuals and communities through the medium of photography.
After graduating with a degree in photography in 1987, she exhibited her black-and-white documentary work on the Cypriot diaspora in Our Space in Britain at Camerawork, London. Her work has since been shown in galleries and art centres across the UK and Cyprus, including Impressions Gallery (York), The Stills Gallery (Edinburgh), Ffotogallery (Cardiff), Untitled Gallery (Sheffield), Cooper Gallery (Barnsley), Famagusta Gate (Nicosia), and The Photographers’ Gallery (London).
She has undertaken editorial and corporate commissions across portraiture, architecture, food and travel, with work published internationally. Her personal practice explores themes of migration, community and belonging.
As an educator, Xenia leads courses and facilitates workshops for people of all ages and abilities in diverse settings, catalysed by concepts of the power of photography to connect, communicate and bear witness.
The photographs presented here are extracts mined from her personal and professional work, forming a synthesis of her lived experience.
Xenia is also a contributing photographer to a new book published by MACK – Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s-90s Britain.