Early Days.
Demetrios studied mixed media in Thessaloniki Greece back in 2004 and bought his first Single Lens Reflex camera in 2005. His favorite subject was music concerts who kept shooting up until 2012.
His first photographs were on film and digital.
He worked as a news photographer during the riots of Athens in 2009 and was shooting concerts in his spare time.
When everything had calmed down, Athens had become his base for street photography and portraiture.
Experimentation.
He returned to Cyprus in 2012 where he completely abandoned digital photography and committed to film and handmade darkroom prints.
He became more solitary in his photographic endeavors.
His search for stimulation pursued while he "home" when he photographs.
Within a few years, he experimented with 35mm, 6x6, and large format film. He started making his own developers and prints in the darkroom.
The journey to find something that doesn't feel barren and stale continues...
TODAY
From 2016, Demetrios turned completely to Wet Plate Collodion photography. Self-taught after years of studying and experimenting, his cameras and developers are completely his own. The entire process is handcrafted from the self-built Large format and Ultra-large format wet plate camera, to the salted collodion recipe and developer employed in the process and the melting silver to make silver nitrate. To complete the ambrotype product, he has also made a varnish to make it immortal. Since the Wet Plate Collodion photography process is not as mobile as film or digital photography, Demetrios modified a van and set up an Ultra-large Wet Plate Collodion darkroom, enabling him to shoot at almost any location, develop and produce a finished product anywhere.