Mersinis is an artist-researcher working in photography, publishing, and lens-based practice whose work examines the photographic image as a site of material, cultural, and political inquiry. A graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, where he currently teaches in the Department of Fine Art Photography, his research is developed through practice-as-research methodologies that combine photographic production, artist publishing, and critical writing.
His work investigates photography beyond its representational function, approaching the image as an event shaped by material contingency, temporal duration, and the conditions under which images are produced and circulated. Drawing on frameworks from cultural and visual anthropology, his projects examine the historiography of specific places and landscapes, focusing on how photographic practices participate in the construction, transmission, and contestation of cultural memory and political identity.
Research outputs include photographic series, artist publications and zines, exhibitions, and experimental media works that explore alternative modes of image circulation and knowledge production. Through these forms, his work interrogates hierarchies embedded within visual culture and publishing structures, contributing to contemporary debates on photographic ontology, visual anthropology, and the politics of representation.