Stefanos Kouratzis is a Cyprus-based photographer and writer. He serves as Artistic Director of LiPhoFe – Limassol Photography Festival and teaches photography at the Aigaia School of Fine Arts, with a focus on theory, history, and critical thinking. He is a columnist for Elefthera, the cultural insert of Phileleftheros newspaper (2025–present).
He is the author of the bilingual photographic monograph Ammochostos – The Algos of Nostos (2024), held in the library collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Academy of Athens, the Cyprus Library, and the Severios Library.
His work has been exhibited internationally, including the Cyprus Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2018), and at institutions including Le Corbusier's Unité d'habitation (Marseille), the Austrian National Library (Vienna), the Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid), and the Museum of Byzantine Culture (Thessaloniki). His work will be presented as part of PHOTOMINO EUROPE at FREELENS Gallery, Hamburg, as part of the Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2026.
Awards include the PDN Photo Annual (Winner, 2018), IPA International Photography Awards (2nd Place, 2017), PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, and the Gomma Photography Grant (Finalist, 2022).
For over two decades he worked as an accredited foreign press photojournalist with AFP, Reuters, Associated Press, France 24, ARTE, and BBC Radio, covering the Lebanon War (2006), Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003), the Gaza Strip, and the Bam earthquake in Iran (2004).
His work is held in private collections in Cyprus and abroad.
