Vanna Karamaounas

Born 1959, Geneva, Switzerland

Vanna Karamaounas aka Iseult Labote – Lives and works in Geneva and Berlin.

Born in Geneva of mixed Greek and Swiss heritage, Labote studied art history and political science at the University of Geneva.

Her passion for photography, which burgeoned during her teenage years, led her to take several study trips abroad including Athens, Rome, Paris, Moscow, Bangkok, Singapore, New York, Cuba and Tokyo.

Her work is represented in private collections in Switzerland, the USA, France, Italy, Luxembourg and Greece. Numerous public institutions have collected her photography, including the Fonds Cantonal d’Art Contemporain de l’Etat de Genève (FCAC), the Geneva student residency, the MAMCO (Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Genève), Darier Private Bank, the State Museum of Contemporary Art KMST-SMCA in Thessaloniki, The Costopoulos Foundation and the National Bank of Greece.