“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, fully in that space, 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.
