A young woman with curly, reddish-brown hair and light skin is standing against a plain gray background. She is looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression. She is wearing a black, long-sleeved top and has a nose piercing, earrings, and multiple rings on her fingers. Her left arm is crossed over her chest, with her hand resting on her right arm.

Portrait Sessions in Ioannina

Personal & family portraits

“A portrait session is not a photoshoot.

It’s a conversation that happens with a camera.”

Most people feel uncomfortable in front of a lens. It isn't because they're difficult to photograph, but because no one has ever given them the time or the space to simply be. That is what my sessions are meant to change.

It doesn't matter what you do or why you've come to me. What matters is that we take the time to get it right.

Personal portraits

A personal portrait can be for yourself, for the people close to you, or simply because you want photographs that finally look like you. There's no brief and no message to get across. It's just you, photographed slowly and honestly.

Family portraits

With families I follow the same slow, quiet process, for the people you share your life with. We can meet at your home or somewhere that means something to you, and we spend less time on poses and more time simply being together.

Whether it's a personal portrait or a family session, the process is the same. It is slow and quiet, and it is built around who you are.

"In a portrait session, you can simply be yourself."

Ioannina is my home and the base of my work. I photograph throughout Epirus as well as in the nearby regions of Western Macedonia and Western Greece, and I also work in Athens and Thessaloniki. If a session takes us elsewhere in Greece, I'll gladly come to you there too.

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If you're looking for headshots or personal branding, you'll find everything on the Headshots & Personal Branding page.

How it works

Before anything else, we talk. We have a 30-minute conversation, in person or online, to work out what you need, where we'll shoot, what the images are for and how you want to feel in them. This is where the session is planned.

Then comes the session itself, in the studio, on location or at your place, depending on what we decided together. The length varies, but most sessions last between one and two hours, and we keep working until we have what we came for.

After the shoot, we sit down together and go through the images. I'll guide you with an objective eye on what works technically and what works emotionally, but the final selection is always yours.

I edit the images you choose with a light hand. I want skin to look like skin and light to look like light, so I remove only what won't be there in two weeks, and nothing else.

Your final images arrive in full resolution through a private online gallery, usually within two to three weeks of the session.

A person wearing a black fedora hat tilted to one side, a blue and white striped collared shirt, and small hoop earrings, with only the top part of their face visible.

People have been making portraits of each other for as long as they have had the means to do so, in paint, in silver and in light. The impulse hasn't changed, only the tools have. A portrait has always been a moment in which someone says: this is who I am, right now.

If you've been putting off having a proper photograph of yourself, for whatever reason, this is a good place to start. We can work in the studio or at your location, in Ioannina or wherever you are in the region. Sessions start from €160.

Close-up portrait of a young woman with long brown hair, wearing a red knitted sweater, looking slightly to the side against a dark background.
Close-up of a young man with dark hair wearing an orange shirt, looking down against a dark grey background.
A woman with curly hair, wearing earrings and jewelry, with her eyes closed, in a black and white portrait against a plain background.
Person with light skin and brown hair wearing a black hat with a wide brim, looking directly at the camera, dressed in a blue and white striped shirt.
Darkly lit photo of a man's face, wearing a zip-up sweater, with a serious expression, and the background is mostly black.
Close-up of a woman's face showing her brown eyes, brown hair, and part of her nose and lips.
Black and white photo of a man in a chef's coat looking to the side, with light coming from the right, standing in front of a plain backdrop.
Close-up portrait of a young woman with curly red hair flattering her face, wearing a beige knitted sweater and a nose ring, with a dark background.
A man sitting cross-legged on a wooden floor, holding a metal pot in his left hand and a long wooden stick in his right hand, against a plain, light-colored wall.
A young woman with short brown hair and brown eyes, wearing a black sleeveless top with sheer detail on the shoulder and light blue jeans, sitting against a white background.
Portrait of a young woman with short, curly hair that is dark at the roots and reddish at the tips, wearing a black off-shoulder top, standing against a plain gray background, with her arms crossed and a neutral facial expression.
Close-up of a man's face and upper body against a dark gray background, wearing a gray, textured zip-up sweater with a black drawstring.
Close-up black and white photo of a man with a beard and short hair, wearing a white shirt with a dark collar and a button, with the focus on his face and partially visible background.
Black and white photo of a young man with dark hair looking directly at the camera, standing in front of a textured stone or concrete wall.

"Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. The revelation, if it comes at all, will come in a small fraction of a second with an unconscious gesture, a gleam of the eye, a brief lifting of the mask that all humans wear to conceal their innermost selves from the world."

— Yousuf Karsh

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