Short bio
Eva is based in Athens, Greece. She has been involved in creative art photography since 2019, following a career in marketing. She attended photography seminars in Greece and completed the “Seeing Through Photographs” online course at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
She has published two photobooks: “Little Miracles” in December 2022 (iFocus Editions) and “Tracing the Unseen” in February 2026 (self-published). She has held two solo exhibitions, in May 2023 and November 2024. She is the winner of the Wildlife & Nature category of the Professional competition at the 2024 Sony World Photography Awards, was longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize (2025, 2026), and her work has been awarded in many other international competitions since 2023, including the reFocus Awards, the Gabriela Iturbide MA-g Awards, the Julia Margaret Cameron Award, the Van Gogh Tribute Award, the FotoNostrum Choice Awards, the FotoSlovo Awards, the International Imaging Competition, Exposure One, and the 1839 Awards. She has participated in many group exhibitions in Athens, London, Milan, Berlin, Barcelona, Venice, Tokyo, Glasgow, Hanoi, Vietnam, and Busan, Korea, and her work has been featured in collective photobooks and online press in Greece and internationally.
A selection of images from her series “Suspended Worlds” is included in the Museum of Avant-Garde’s permanent contemporary collection in Switzerland.
Artist statement
My work moves between natural and urban environments, macro details, abstract forms, and fine art imagery. I am drawn to quiet, often overlooked moments embedded in daily life, seeking subtle beauty and fragments of poetry within what I call my "little mundane world." Through attentive observation, I aim to reveal the depth and resonance hidden within the ordinary. Photography nourishes my relationship with nature and my inner world, grounding my practice in both the external landscape and internal reflection.
Through my images, I create spaces of visual stillness that serve as pauses amid the constant noise of contemporary life. They invite slowing down, closer noticing, and reconnection with personal memories, emotions, and a sense of place. By fostering quiet intimacy within each frame, I encourage reflection and renewed awareness of both self and surroundings.
More recently, my practice has begun to evolve in a new parallel direction. I have started using my digital images as source material for more alternative, analogue, and handmade processes. The intent is to transform my images into more tactile, tangible, and unique artworks. This feels like a natural extension of the same searching: the same attentiveness to the overlooked, now translated into the slowness and intimacy of making by hand.
I hope you enjoy the extraordinary poetry that may be uncovered in the ordinary.
I am happy to hear your thoughts and impressions. You can reach out to me using the contact form.
Eva Berler
My artworks on artsy.com (represented by Art Screen TV)
My profile in Moments Collective (Official member)