Because of the financial difficulties my family was facing, there was need for me to help them with work from early on. During summer vacation I used to do photo shootings for marriages and events, develop films. I was making money using my camera since I was 14.
After high school I studied at Leica Academy of Athens which primarily focused on technical training and I worked with fashion magazines for a short while.
The turning point of my relationship with photography took place in 2010, when I joined the inpatient rehab program of "18Ano" as I had been a drug addict for 10 long years. 18Ano's photography team was magnificent; it exceeded all my expectations. The therapists helped me rediscover myself as a photographer, separate using photography as a way to be creative and express myself from using it as a tool at work, and become comfortable with criticism. I think that without that experience I wouldn't be the photographer I am today.
