Margarita Mavromichalis speaks five languages and studied translation and interpreting.  She likes to think that photography is her second language, as it’s a universal language, one that is understood by all across the world and conveys messages in the most powerful way.

Margarita is mostly attracted to street photography and the elements that evoke emotions and surprise in our everyday life. Furthermore, she is passionate about documenting current events that she feels very strongly about, highlighting their social impact. Her work has been displayed in exhibitions in New York, Boston, San Diego, The Museum of the City of New York, the Brooklyn Historical Society and most recently in Budapest, Athens, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona and London. Selected images are part of the permanent collections of the Museum of the City of New York and the Brooklyn Historical Society.

She is the winner of the Pollux Awards in 2016, winner of the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards in 2018 and 2020, a finalist at the Miami Street Photography Festival in 2018 and 2020 and she was nominated for the 2019 Prix Pictet Award. In 2021, she won a Gold Medal at the Budapest International Foto Awards and a Silver Medal at the Prix de la Photographie Paris