“I photograph people.”
I started in a darkroom. 2005, black-and-white film, Ionian University. The moment the image appeared on the paper I understood what I wanted to do.
What I do now is simpler than it sounds: I put someone in front of my camera and I wait. Not for a pose but for the moment the pose drops. That's the photograph.
I work in Ioannina, Athens, and across Greece, in studio and on location. What stays the same from one session to the next is not the space but the pace: unhurried, attentive, and without pressure to fill the silence.
The people that I work with are individuals, creatives and professionals. People whose life reflects in their face if you give it time to surface.
A portrait session is a collaboration. What appears in the final image carries something of both people. The one in front of the camera and the one behind it. That's not a metaphor. It shapes every decision I make: how I prepare, how I move, when I wait.
When I photograph someone, I get close to them. I learn how they carry themselves, what they're comfortable showing and what they'd rather keep back. Over time, that process has taught me things about people and about life, that I wouldn't have found any other way. Each session leaves me knowing something I didn't know before.
What I'm working toward, in every session, is presence. Not a performance, not a carefully managed version of someone. Just the two of us, present, with nothing to prove. When that happens, the photograph takes care of itself.
If you'd like to work together, start with a message through the Contact page.
