Dimitri Mellos was born in Athens, Greece, and is currently based in New York City. He studied philosophy and psychology, and is a largely self-taught photographer. He is mainly working on self-initiated, long-term projects.

Dimitri's work has been exhibited in Greece, Barcelona, London, Berlin, New York, Miami, Santa Fe, Canberra, and elsewhere, and is in public and private collections. He has received several awards for his work, including first place in the PX3 Awards, the International Photography Awards, and WPGA Pollux Awards, as well as 2nd place in CENTER’s Editor’s Choice awards and 1st runner-up in Blurb’s Photography Book Now contest. He also won the 1st prize in the Fine art e-book category at Fotoweek DC, was a Finalist for the prestigious Fotovisura Grant and the Magnum Expression Award, has been three times a Finalist for the Renaissance Photography Prize, participated in the Eddie Adams workshop, and was selected for American Photography 28 and 31. More recently, he was selected as a Juror's Pick for the Magnum Photography Awards 2016 and a Finalist for the Lensculture Street Photography Awards 2016.

John Szarkowski said of Garry Winogrand that “his ambition was not to make good pictures, but through photography to know life”. This statement perfectly describes Dimitri’s photographic aspirations as well.