Michalis Patsouras lives in
Athens and he is a professional photographer. Before he got professionally
involved in photography he worked for 10 years as a civil servant at the Greek
Ministry of Commerce, while at the same time he studied photography and video
art at the schools Focus and the Greek Leica Academy.
In 2000 he resigned in order to dedicate himself professionally to photography. In 2001 he was hired as a chief photographer of the magazines of a large publishing group. In 2005 he started working with advertising agencies. All these years he has also been involved in travel reporting.
Since 2009 he has been working as a freelance
photographer, mainly on long-term anthropocentric projects, focusing on
contemporary social issues.
The way he likes to work is
experientially. From 2017 to 2021 he worked as a photography teacher for the
Greek Leica Academy. He is a member of the Hellenic Photojournalist Association
and FIVOS (collective organization for the protection of copyright in Greece).
