Anastasia Pagonas is a photographer, writer and teacher living in the American Southwest. She is the founder of MEMORY CULT, an online community for insurgent family photography. Her writing explores artistic autonomy, the subject/photographer relationship and the effect of the attention economy on creative vision. For 16 years she has photographed families from the child’s point of view, producing art books and large format prints for her clients and audience, drawing inspiration from the physical photograph as art object and personal document.

AWARDS & EXHIBITIONS

2024 Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Category Winner: Children, Single Images Professional Selection

2024 Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Honorable Mention: Children, Single Images Professional Selection (4)

2024 Herberger Theater Center, Group Exhibition: O’Keefe

2023 Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport Museum, Group Exhibition: Night Vision

2023 Head On Photo Festival, Portrait Awards, Semi-Finalist

2023 All About Photo Magazine #32 B&W, Second Place Finalist

2022 International Photography Awards, Official Selection, Professional Analog/Film — Portrait

2022 International Photography Awards, Honorable Mention, Professional Analog/Film — Portrait

PUBLICATIONS

2024 Garden of Dreams, Black Flower Publishing Annual Anthology

2023 Eye Mama: Poetic Truths of Home and Motherhood, TeNeues

2023 Nowhere Diary, Anastasia Pagonas on Photographing Families

INTERVIEWS

2024 Wake Up High Five, Community Conversations: Risking It All For Your Big Dream

2022 Silver & Cedar Podcast, My Biggest Inspiration Is My Feelings

2021 Lomography, Anastasia Pagonas Meets the Moments of Life with Film