Angela Christofilou Archive
About this Archive
Administrative/biographical history
Angela Christofilou, from Lancashire, England, and Athens, Greece, and based in London, works as a photographer, actor, voice-over artist, and singer. She is a self-taught photographer with a focus on protest, human rights, activism, and the documentation and sharing of both personal narratives and community stories.
Over nearly a decade, Angela has also created a large body of work in protest photography, being part of and supporting the communities and spaces she documents, including women's rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, anti-racism, workers' rights, environmental justice, migrant justice, and more. The majority of this work is archived at Bishopsgate Institute.
She has collaborated with various campaign organisations, frequently working with Greenpeace and photographing for many grassroots groups.
Her photography appears in exhibitions, books, magazines, newspapers, documentaries, and talks, engaging communities and youth, advocating photography's role in social change.
Her recent book, "Church Bingo", published by Pendle Press, celebrates Heywood's elderly community spirit and fading cultural traditions in post-pandemic Britain.
Scope and content
The Angela Christofilou Archive includes:
- Digital photographs taken by Angela Christofilou depicting protests in the United Kingdom and France relating to AdFree Cities / Badversiting actions (2023-2024)
- Afghan Women Solidarity Protest (2021)
- Anti Trump protests (2017-2019)
- Abortion Rights Protests (2020-2022)
- Australia Invasion Day Protest (2022)
- Bella Care Work Lockdown Protest (2020)
- Black Lives Matter, London (2020)
- Brexit Protests (2019)
- British Sign Language Act Now (2022)
- C.A.G.E.D. Greyhound Exploitation Protest (2020)
- Cambridge University Occupation (2020)
- Climate and Environmental Protests (2019-2025)
- Cost of Living Crisis Protest (2022)
- Disabled People Against Cuts Facebook Protest (2019)
- Defence and Security Equipment International (2021)
- English Defence League (2017)
- Education Protest Smash the Salary Freeze, Lewisham Civic Suite (2022)
- Election Night Protest (2019)
- End Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) Protest (2020)
- [FCK Government] FCK Boris Protest (2019)
- Fight Inequality Protest (2020)
- Free Palestine Protests (2018-2025)
- GARA (Goldsmiths Anti Racist Action) Occupation (2019)
- Gilets Jaunes Paris (2019)
- Greek Embassy, Justice for Pavlos Fyssas (2013)
- Justice for Chris Kaba (2022)
- Justice for Cleaners (2018-2021)
- Justice for Grenfell (2017-2018)
- Justice for Shukri [Abdi] (2020)
- Kill the Bill (2021)
- LGBTQIA+ (2016-2021)
- Migrants Organise (2020-2021)
- NHS 73rd Anniversary (2021)
- No Births Behind Bars (2022)
- Outsourcing Sucks Protest, Senate House Strike (2018)
- Rana Plaza Solidarity / Labour Behind the Label marches (2023-2024)
- Sex Workers Rights / Sex Work is Work protests (2019-2020)
- Sikh Protest London Independence (2018)
- Spoon Strike (2018)
- Stanstead 15 protest, Stop the War, Parliament Square (2018)
- Ukraine Solidarity Protests, Uyghur protest (2020)
- Free Alaa Abd El-Fattah Vigil (2024)
- Windrush, Brixton’s Windrush Square (2018)
- Women’s Rights protests (2015-2025)
- Yarl’s Wood (2015)
- Yellow Vests, London (2018)
- Yemen protest (2020)
- Sound recordings of protests (2022). (2013-2025)
NB: these are digital files which can be consulted in the Researcher's Area
