Nikos Sarantos
Mr Nikos Sarantos is one of the most significant Greek chefs. Twenty years ago he was the one that founded the Greek Chefs Club and spread Greek gastronomy in all over the world. He is not only a talented Greek chef but also a chef with vision and passion for giving to the Greek Cuisine and taste the best it deserves. Before I meet him the truth is that I didn’t know much for him and for his personality. Our meeting point and photoshoot place was Cookoovaya Restaurant in the center of Athens. When Mr Sarantos came in, I realised how important and great he is for the gastronomy industry of Greece, in the way that the chefs of Cookoovaya restaurant behave and speak to him.
The photoshoot location of Cookoovaya restaurant in Athens wasn’t the easiest place could be. The chefs were doing the preparation for the opening and the natural light was to bright for the mood I wanted to give to the pictures. I feel boring to see chefs photos with kitchen tools in their hands in their suit. In this portrait photoshoot in Athens, I wanted to present the Greek chef Mr Nikos Sarantos as a famed and master chef standing out of the crowd. To make this shot I put him close to another young chef who were making the preparation. It was a good way to show the contrast of the beginning of the past mirrored to the present of the successful career of Mr Nikos Sarantos. The second photo of the photoshoot was siting as a customer in front of a minimal background, waiting to serve him and taste and maybe enjoy the dish cause itsalso known that Me Nikos Sarantos is a bit severe with tastes! The photoshoot of the Greek Chef Nikos Sarantos was for his Interview in Gastronomos Magazine of Kathimerini. Working in Athens as a portrait photographer and meeting and working with important people and great Greeks like Nikos Sarantos is one of the thinks I love in my job!
Dimitris Korres
Dimitris Korres is one of the few engineers in the world that manages to construct a super car, the «Korres Project 4», capable to reach the level of limited production. This was the occasion of the photoshoot, to accompanied the interview by Apostolis Fotiadis for K magazine of Kathimerini News.
The phοtoshoot took place outdoor of his workshop in Athens. For this purpose we fired up the 7.000 cc of «Korres Project 4» super car! Then a short demonstration of its capabilities followed. It was really impressive to see a seemingly " conventional " car to do things that would not even imagined like standing up almost one meter from the ground, climbing, overcoming obstacles, etc.
One of these photos was chosen by K magazine to accompany the interview of Dimitris Korres that published on January 19, 2013 in Issue 555.
Vicky Papadopoulou
Every year, Kathimerini’s newspaper K Magazine makes a tribute about Greek actors and the most interesting theatrical performances that will take place in Athens in fall and winter months. This is the second photoshoot I have been chosen to do for this tribute. I have posted the first in Palace theaterlast week.
Two young and talented Greek actors, Vicky Papadopoulou and Yiorgos Papageorgiou will act in “Venus in Fur” performance at Thision Theater. The industrial space of the theater is suitable for minimal style photographs focused on subject which is… The actors.
I love grey and grungy backgrounds like the theater’s walls. I found a yellow vintage chic chair, which helped me to make one of my favorite images. I decide to go for a medium length shot to fill the images with the actors and the appropriate background and style details. One of them was the fur that vicky wears and it is also the main subject of the performance. Here is the photos that had been chosen and was published on 5 October 2013. Big thanks to both of you Vicky and Yiorgos and I hope you have enjoyed the pictures the same as me. Good Luck!
Katerina Moutsatsos for Aegina Island Campaign
Katerina Moutsatsos is the leading actress of the promotion campaign of our common origin place Aegina Island. The Name of the Campaign is“Discover Aegina”.
Creative Director Dimitris Makaratzis,
fashion Editor Ilias Mixalolias,
Make up artist Yiannis Marketakis,
image editor Costas Kokonos
Tasos Kefalas on video.
Aegina Fistiki Festival
Last Saturday the photography Exhibition for 2013 Fistiki Festival in Aegina Island in Folklore Museum had been completed. My goal was to capture the shapes that the light on the objects related to the harvest. Somewhere between stills and portrait.
Mike Zambidis
Mike Zambidis is one of the best professionals Kickboxing fighters in the world. His friends call himIron Mike. He is a 15 time World Champion, and is the current W.I.P.U. “King of the Ring” also competing in the K-1 MAX. His career records 174 fights, 14 world titles and that, since 2003, competing with the best athletes globally at the top organizations. Tonia Fouseki is his manager, owner of So Fine Public Relations company and every year organizes the Athens Exclusive Designers Week. The photoshoot is for People magazine of Proto Thema Newspaper and took place at his Gym “Zambidis Club“at Glyfada in Athens. Published on 12 October 2013. Here are the selected photos.
Hair and Make up by Chrysa Makris.
Giorgos Manikas
George Manikas is one of the most decorated Greek male models. He has participated in manycampaigns and fashion shows. He decided to produce his own yogurt ice cream recipe for those who love ice cream, yogurt and fitness. The photoshoot for Proto Thema Newspaper took place in a neoclassical house build in 1800 on a coast of Aegina Island and published on 22 June 2013.