Konstantinos Kalantzis

Konstantinos Kalantzis is a sociocultural anthropologist (PhD) working on the intersections of visual culture and political imagination. He is author of Tradition in the Frame: Photography, Power, and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete (IUP, 2019), co-editor of the volume Citizens of Photography (Duke University Press, 2022)  and director of the ethnographic films Dowsing the Past (2014) and the Impossible Narration (2021).  He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in rural and urban Greece and has taught at various universities in the UK, the US and Greece. He is a recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s 2019 JB Donne Essay Prize on the Anthropology of Art. He is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Thessaly (Department of Culture and Creative Media and Industries) and a Lecturer in Anthropology and Visual Culture at UCL.