Marios Schwab
"Marios Schawb is a creative director and a prominent representative of British fashion, having studied in Austria, Berlin and London, the renowned Greek-Austrian designer founded the brand of the same name in 2005. A year later, Marios Schwab received the British Designer of the Year award at the British Fashion Awards. One of the most important collaborations of his career was the one with the historical American fashion house Halston, which started in 2009 and lasted for two years. Among his most impressive collections was the famous Chiaroscuro collection for the summer of 2012. This season, Schwab is interested in a more sustainable, more responsible approach to fashion and production. Collaboration with Zeus + Dione offers him this opportunity. Their goal is to jointly highlight the value of proper management of valuable materials. Materials that characterize the work of the creator over time".
The portrait photoshoot took place at the Winter Garden of Grand Bretagne hotel for the Hotel Magazine.
Nikos Stampolidis
Portrait photography for Nikos Stampolidis Director-General of the Acropolis Museum. The Acropolis Museum is included in the best museums in the world, while during its twelve-year operation has created new data in the country’s museum landscape. The selection of Prof. Nikos Stampolidis creates new perspectives and offers additional dynamics to a Museum that has attracted important international distinctions and (has gained) the preference of visitors from Greece and abroad. Nikos Stampolidis, an archaeologist with award-winning work, in addition to being a scholar with excellent training, is a man with a modern understanding of both archaeology and the connection between culture and society. It has the knowledge, the mood, and the vision so that the Acropolis Museum can dynamically continue its highly successful work, as well as expand and multiply its activities “.
Ioannis Angelakis
"I was born in Thessaloniki in 1988 but grew up in Athens. I'm a composer of contemporary experimental music, working, that is, with classical acoustic instruments and exploring idiosyncratic aspects of their physicality. I seek to discover sounds that are not fully controllable by the performers; that are inherently unstable and constantly moving; that entail a particular logic in the way that they unfold; that presup- pose a particular body-instrument relationship, and that call fora new mode of listening, disentangled from classical
forms and traditional parameters and intended for the kind of pleasure that arises from the revelation of sound's internal structures. structures.
Greekness" is expressed in my music through the violent use of instruments, the bluntness of the human voices, and the constant strife between two contradictory elements: disparate musical materials that remain indeterminate and anarchic, and a determinate structure that violently imposes form on the formless and shape on the shapeless. I think that all Greek tragedies thematize the violence stemming from this conflict: a man striving, without order, to shape his course within a condition that is predetermined by the gods. However, violence and bluntness in my work are not just sonic events that point to the Greek identity of my music. They also demarcate violence and barbarism as political concepts. I want my work to be revealing, not because of its bold themes but because the violence in the sound may give prominence to our fragility and vulnerability."
The portrait photography of the composer Ioannis Angelakis took place in his studio in Athens for Electra Hotels Magazine.
Text by Natasha Blatsioy.
Eleytheria Deco for Kappa Magazine
In this portrait photography I was pleased to meet and work with one of my favourite greek artists, the lighting designer Eleytheria Deco. I knew Eletheria's Deco work since 2004 when she awarded with EMI award for the light design of the Olympic Games ceremony "Athens 2004 Olympics".
Since then and due to our common interest, "light" ("phos", greek word for light and first synthetic work for photo-graphy) , I have been watching her works with great interest. She has an open field of design like theaters, festivals, museums, public spaces, events and architectural lighting projects. The special thing with her works is that sometimes it is like she has a signature and gives you a feeling that you can identify her aesthetic.
Her recent work was the light design of Acropolis. The new lighting will highlight nine points of the ancient monument: the Acropolis hill, the walls, the Parthenon, the Propylaea, the Temple of Athena Nike, the Erechtheion, the Theater of Dionysus, the Stoa of Eumenes and the Sanctuary of Dionysus. As the Culture Ministry underlines, for the first time the choragic monument of Thrasyllos, the Asklepieion of Athens, the caves of Apollo and Aglauros, and the Sanctuary of Aphrodite, will all be illuminated.
It was great pleasure of meeting and work with her for this portrait season for her interview in Kappa Magazine of Kathimerini newspaper. Her portraits published on 19-12-2020.
Minas Designs Jewellery
Headshot portrait of jewellery designer Minas . The photoshoot was for vogue greece and took place in his home in Athens.
Soul Project - Ατομική έκθεση φωτογραφίας Δημήτρη Βλάικου
Ένα πρωτοποριακό project του φωτογράφου Δημήτρη Βλάικου που ως σκοπό έχει την αποτύπωση καθημερινών χαρακτήρων που συνθέτουν την ψυχή της πόλης της Αίγινας ως λαογραφικά στοιχεία της περιοχής. Για τις ανάγκες αυτού του project στήθηκε ένα υπαίθριο φωτογραφικό studio στο κέντρο της αγοράς της Αίγινας, οπού 120 χαρακτήρες φωτογραφήθηκαν σε τρεις ημέρες. Τα 120 πορτραίτα θα εκτεθούν στο Λαογραφικό μουσείο Αίγινας στις 23-‐09-‐11 και η έκθεση θα διαρκέσει μέχρι τις 30-09-11. Ντόπιοι και επισκέπτες θα έχουν την ευκαιρία να δουν από μια άλλη οπτική τους καθημερινούς ανθρώπους γύρω τους, τόσο ως μορφές αλλά και ως ψυχές. Τις ψυχές της πόλης.
Soul Project Eίναι ο τίτλος της έκθεσης φωτογραφίας του Δημήτρη Βλάικου που θα φιλοξενηθεί στο Λαογραφικό Μουσείο Αίγινας 23 – 30 Σεπτεμβρίου.
Στα 29 του χρόνια και μετά από δεκαετή αναζήτηση στην τέχνη της φωτογραφίας, ο καλλιτέχνης έρχεται να καταθέσει στην πρώτη αυτή ατομική του έκθεση, την προσωπική οπτική πάνω στον κοινό μας τόπο την Αίγινα. Φιλοδοξία του να αποδείξει πως ο φακός μπορεί να αποτυπώνει την εσωτερικότητα, επικεντρωμένος στην ουσία και τη ψυχική διάσταση προσώπων και πραγμάτων, πέρα από τις φόρμες.
Οι Ψυχές της Πόλης βρίσκονται για τον Δημήτρη Βλάικο παντού, σε ότι τυχαίο και καθημερινό, σε κάθε φιγούρα και αντικείμενο. Έφτασε ως εκεί από την έμμονη παρατήρηση αυθεντικών μορφών και χαρακτήρων που όσο πάει και λιγοστεύουν. Φυσιογνωμίες αναλλοίωτες στο χρόνο σε φόρμες γεμάτες ελληνικότητα, που αν τις απομονώσεις μπορούν να σε ταξιδέψουν στο χρόνο. 
