Ioanna Katsibra was born in Bremen, Germany. She studied at the FOCUS School of Photography and Audiovisual Media in Athens and attended art history seminars at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She also attended photography workshops with Ed Kashi of National Geographic and Constantine Manos of Magnum Photos.
With a scholarship from the European Union, she joined the international photojournalism agency SIPA PRESS in Paris, where she worked as a photographer covering the arts. In 2001, she received the Special Award at the FODAR Photography Biennale in Bulgaria for her series “Lost City”.
She has held solo and group exhibitions in Athens, Thessaloniki, Paris, Bulgaria and Japan. Her work is held in the collection of the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, the permanent collection of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in Japan, and private collections.
She is a member of the Athens Chamber of Fine Arts and holds a degree from the School of Humanities at the University of the Aegean. She teaches the art of photography in primary education.