About Soulla Petrou
Soulla Petrou is a visual artist who has been working as a photographer for over 30 years. This website stores some of Soulla's vast archive of music imagery as well as her fashion, beauty, landscapes and one off works of Art in acrylic and oil paints on canvas.
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Soulla Petrou is an award-winning photographer based in London. She began her career by photographing some of the most ground breaking musicians and Dj's of the 90s and 00s.
Her work has been published extensively in magazines and newspapers. Soulla was a regular contributor to magazines such as The Face, Mixmag, DJ magazine and The Saturday Times as well as shooting for dance label Defected. Her work includes images of Geri Halliwell back in 1994, pre Spice Girls showing early signs of an emerging Ginger Spice; Britpop heroes Blur during their concert in Sweden in 1997 for the launch cover of The Saturday Times new music supplement, Metro, and Frankie Knuckles "The Godfather of House" in 2007 for the 20th Anniversary of music label Def Mix. The list includes, Underworld, Orbital, Supergrass, Goldie, Kula Shaker, The Chemical Brothers and many more.
Soulla's music portraits won her 3rd place at The International Photography Awards in 2008. She is also featured in "The World's Top Photographer's- Celebrity & Performance" a book published in 2009. In 2023 Soulla published a book featuring her vast music photography archive in a book titled " Rewind- Journey of a Music Photographer" some of these images can be seen on her commercial website in the archive section, http://www.soullapetrou.com/a1.html
Soulla continues to work as a photographer mostly in the advertising industry.
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Download PDFs
BIOG PDF ARTIST STATEMENT CV PRESS RELEASE FOLIO OF IMAGES PDF
Awards
2023 Finalist in The Association of Photographers Awards in Fashion & Beauty category
2022 BIPP Photographer of the Year National Print Competition Award for Siren
2015 PM Awards- 2 Gold Awards for Saatchi Health for Allergan "Real Expressions" Campaign
2015 IPA - Honourable Mention in Advertising/ Fashion
2014 Prix de la Photographie-Silver in Advertising/Fashion Category for Ted Baker Footwear Campaign
2014 Prix de la Photographie -3rd Place Peoples Choice for Ted Baker Footwear Campaign
2014 Moscow International Foto Awards- Honourable Mention for Fashion Photography in New Style Russia Magazine.
2012 IPA- Honourable Mention in Fashion Advertising Category and Conceptual Advertising Category.
2011 IPA- Honourable Mention in Music Category
2009 IPA- Honourable Mention in Fashion Category. 2010 IPA- Honourable Mention in Beauty Category.
2009 Professional Photographer of the Year- Commended in Advertising Category
2008 International Photography Awards (IPA)- Advertising Category (Music) 3rd Place
2005 Fuji Distinctions- Merit Award
2003 Fuji Distinctions- Merit Award
2002 Fuji Fashion Collective - Merit
2002 Fuji Distinctions- Distinction Award
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Exhibitions/Auctions
2023 Milestones Exhibition at Museum of Modern Electronic Music (MOMEM) Frankfurt
2022 Art Aid Ukraine at The Auction Collective
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Book Press
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If you're looking to commission Soulla for any photography work please visit http://www.soullapetrou.com