Music lover, interior design fanatic, big crier, hopeless empath, and lifelong photography addict.
I’m a half-Greek girl (hence the name!), originally from a place called Glyfada, near Athens. I’ve lived in the UK since I was five, and I still yearn for that warm Greek sunshine!
To me, music is the cherry on top of everything. From the moment I wake up, to when I close my eyes at night, my life has a pretty much constant soundtrack!
Country and folk music is my absolute favourite. The kind that gets you lost in a story, and has you bawling over someone else’s heartbreak (having said that, I’m hopelessly empathetic, I literally do cry at everything!)
I’m fully addicted to interior-design. I’ve been collecting things for my dream home since I was seventeen (I even have a mood board for every room!) And now I have a literal storage unit full of Aussie-Morocco-Bali style furnishings for my future house.
Everything in my life has its proper place. Look around my studio, and everything is exactly where it should be. Open my wardrobe, and my clothes are colour-coordinated, everything in shades. Sad? Oh definitely! But sooooo satisfying!
And when I think about it, my photography style is a reflection of me. A collision of my two halves.
The precise girl, to whom only perfection will do; lines straight, subjects centred, light flawless. And the empathetic girl who listens to every problem, and can’t help but feel the emotion in everything she sees.
And for me, that’s how photos should be.
Perfectly-taken photos that swim beneath the surface, and capture exactly how the moment felt.
Photography has a gravity in my life. Pulling me towards it for as long as I can remember
I got my first camera as a gift, when I was a little girl. We went to the waterfalls of Pilos- my mum, my dad and my sister. And I remember looking through the lens; invited into a world of beauty I wouldn’t usually get to see. Enwrapped in the tiniest of details. Seeing life anew.
A few years later, I’d be setting up my tripod in my mum’s bedroom; donning dresses, practising poses. Rehearsing as the supermodel I was sure I’d one day be.
A decade on, I’d be sitting in my grandmother’s garden, cradling my beloved DSLR. Hungrily searching out beauty, catching raindrops on petals.
In an unkind world, it had become my escape. My very own world through a lens.
And it’s funny when you look back, isn’t it? Photography has always been a part of me. Weaving its way through my life like sunlight in summer. My sanctuary, my sanity, my passion. My gift to others; their gift to me.
I get to put smiles on people’s faces. To capture their memories, their families, their lives. To give them comfort, companionship, and sometimes even hope. It’s taken me a lifetime to realise it, but it’s what I was born to do.