My name is Konstantinos Zontanos, Zontanos literally means alive so you could say thats my ethos.I was born and raised in Greece, living like Persephone half of my year in Athens and the rest in a small island called Poros.Stabillity was never really written in my bones,constant moving and change of scenery made me adore uncertain situations.Growing up in them i was quite the brat, thats around the time when i picked the alias KOZO which derives from the starting letters of my sur and last name,but also very importantly isnpired by the japanese word thats literally means brat,street kid.Growing up i tried finding worth in my mundane everyday routine but alas i couldnt,thats when i met my first love cinema.
Thanks to my father who used to be a screenwriter my days became worthwile.Directors such as Kurosawa,Mizogutchi,Tarkovsky,Theo Aggelopulos and many more shaped my world.I desperatly wanted to be in that world but i could never find the way,until i found my mothers old Nikon coolpix,it was a game changer.
Being able to freeze fragments of my everyday reality in time eternally was astonishing to me, so i thought that the best place to start if u want to get to the moving pictures is only one , still pictures, frames, photographs.
My biggest photographical inspirations are Daido Moriyama from PROVOKE,Sebastiao Salgado,Kudelka,Bruce Gilden and many many more.
I really cannot describe the way i shoot pictures, maybe i love doing street a bit more than all the rest but still i try to find the beauty in everything and that has made life exciting,always,anywhere.
I think my work can be called poetic or lyrical, abstract even but i just tend to shoot anything i might come across and find interesting.
Photography for now has captivated me, its a wonderful trip and iam eager to see where it is going.
Iam still ofcourse very young, my active preoccupation with photography is only around 4 years but iam gluttonous when it comes to more life and more experiences.I want to discover every aspect of photography and maybe my work will defy death and stay around longer than me, connecting people with the subject and themselves.
