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Bio

Nikos Economopoulos was born in the Peloponnese, Greece, in 1953. He then studied law and worked as a journalist in Parma, Italy. He started photographing in Greece and Turkey and eventually abandoned journalism to dedicate himself to photography.

He joined Magnum Photos in 1990 and his photographs began appearing in newspapers and magazines around the world. In the same period, he started traveling and photographing extensively around the Balkans. This work won him the Mother Jones Award for work in progress. Upon completion of his Balkans project in 1994, Economopoulos became a full member of Magnum Photos. His book, In the Balkans, was published in 1995 in New York and Athens.

In the 1990s, Economopoulos started working on borders and crossings, photographing the inhabitants of the “Green Line” in Cyprus, the irregular migrants on the Greek-Albanian borderline, and the mass migration of ethnic Albanians fleeing Kosovo. In the mid-1990s, he started photographing the Roma and other minorities. In 2000, he completed a book project on the Aegean islands storytellers, commissioned by the University of the Aegean.

Mentorship

Nikos Economopoulos is dedicated to helping photographers explore and express their personal viewpoints within their work. As he explains “a subjective approach to reality through documentary photography is what interests me.”

Under Economopoulos’s mentorship, the process of reviewing and editing images becomes a journey of discovery. He encourages his mentees to dig deeper into their photographs. As he states, “through reviewing and editing, we will be finding within the images those elements that have a unique, personal resonance and a sense of connection.” This process is aimed not only to refine your technical skills but also foster a deeper understanding of your artistic vision.

Economopoulos’s approach is more than just about perfecting a craft; it’s about cultivating an authentic voice in the realm of documentary photography. He guides photographers to embrace their subjective perspectives, helping them to create images that are not only visually compelling but also rich with personal significance. Through his mentorship, photographers learn to trust their instincts and to see the world through a lens that is uniquely their own.

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The mentorship with Nikos Economopoulos can be in English or Greek.
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