Maria Papadimitriou was born in Athens in 1957, and today still lives in Volos, Athens. She studied at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris. She teaches at the Department of Architecture and the University of Thessalia (Greece). In 2001 she was invited to the “New Trends in International Photography” exhibition at the Atheneum Museum of Architecture and Design in Chicago. In 2002 she took part in the Biennial in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and in Manifesta 4 in Germany. In 2003 she won the prize for Contemporary Greek Art awarded by the Desde Foundation. She is active in the photography field and has taken part in important personal and collective exhibitions in Greece and abroad, including “Temporary Office” at the Olivetti Foundation in Rome in 2004, ”We’ll meet again” at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, “Playgrounds and Toys for Children”, in the Lobby of the United Nations Building, New York and “Kazino” at the Contemporary Art Gallery of Athens.