Georgios Makkas
Biography[edit]
Georgios "Giorgos" Makkas was born in Athens in 1977 and from his early years, he had a very strong interest in photography. At the age of fifteen, he joined the Photography Circle in Athens, a non-profit cultural society. He took his degree in photography at the European School of Photography in Athens and in 1999 he moved to the UK to attend the Documentary Photography course in Newport, Wales from which he graduated in 2002.
Career[edit]
Over the past 15 years, he has worked as a freelance photographer in Greece and in other countries for editorial and commercial clients. Since 2006 , he is represented globally by Panos Pictures, a London-based photo agency specializing in global social issues.
He took part in several private and group exhibitions in the UK (National Portrait Gallery, Hereford Photo Festival, the Newsroom in London) and Greece (Athens Photo Festival , Thessaloniki Museum Of Photography, Rizarios Cultural Centre in Monodendri), Spain (Fotonoviembre, Centro del Carmen de Valencia), Italy (Le voci dell'inchiesta -Pordenone, Fotografia Europea -Reggio Emilia), USA (DUMBO Arts Festival), Turkey (Istanbul Design Biennial). His work can be found in the permanent collection of the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography.
In 2009 and 2010, he participated in the artist in residence programme SETSE - Seeing Europe Through a Stranger's Eyes - in the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland.
He has contributed to NGO’s, magazines, newspapers and work on private commissions both in photography and video. My list of clients includes:
Magazines, books and newspapers : Frommerʼs Travel Guides, IEEE Spectrum (USA), The Sunday Times Magazine, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Telegraph, Marie Claire, Thomas Cook Travel Magazine, Huck magazine (UK), NEON, GEO Special (Germany) M, le magazine du Monde (France) MO* magazine (Belgium) Corriere della Sera (Italy) El Pais – Semanal (Spain) The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Mail (Australia), Newsweek (Japan) iTravel (China), Vmag (Malaysia), Talouselämä (Finland), Vimagazino, Tahidromos, K, Epiloges, Epsilon (Greece).
Non-editorial work : Médecins Sans Frontières - Doctors Without Borders, ActionAid (UK) Clinical Newswire, MNC Systems (Japan), ILPAP Athens Trolley Bus Company, Greek NGO 50plus hellas, bios theatre (Greece), CERN, AOSpine International (Switzerland) Polish NGOs Akademia Przyszlosci, CentrumCSR (Poland) Abergavenny Food Festival (UK) Virgin Foods (USA).
Video work- short documentaries: CERN, RAI 5, The Go-Lab Project.
His Documentary Project[edit]
In 2002, he launched a documentary project about the depopulation of rural Albania, which won the first prize in the Observer Hodge photographic award in London.
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