Alexakis’ photographs are held in both public and private collections in Australia – most significantly in the Australian National Gallery, Canberra, the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, and the Australian Embassy, Athens. She currently works as a freelance photographer after completing 25 years service as Senior Photographer with Macquarie University, Sydney. Alexakis has been ranked in the top ten portrait photographers in Australia and has been a recipient of significant grants including the Australia Council, Australian-Greek Presidential Awards and numerous heritage grants.
Janiszewski has held both a New South Wales History Fellowship and a New South Wales Ethnic Affairs Commission Fellowship. Both Alexakis and Janiszewski have been Research Fellows with the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University in Sydney. Janiszewski is currently Curator with the Macquarie University Art Gallery. Both have served on numerous government and university-based history, literature and arts committees.
Images of Home: Mavri Xenitia
Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1995
In Their Own Image: Greek-Australians
Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1998
Greek Cafés & Milk Bars of Australia
Halstead Press, 2016/2022
Effy Alexakis: Forty Photographs – A Year at a Time
Photowrite, Sydney, 2022
In Their Own Image: Greek-Australians
(1996–2004)
Generations
(2001–2006)
In Her Own Image: Greek-Australian Women
(2004–2011)
Selling an American Dream: Australia’s Greek Café
(2008–2018)
In Our Own Image
M. Karris, director, SBS Television and the Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney 1988
Selling an American Dream: Australia’s Greek Café
M. Karris, director, Macquarie University and the ‘In Their Own Image: Greek-Australians’ National Project Archives, Sydney, 2006
Antipodean Odyssey
Hellenic Museum, Melbourne, and the ‘In Their Own Image: Greek-Australians’ National Project Archives, Sydney, 2012
