About
Konstantinos Zilos is a documentary photographer - photojournalist based in Athens, Greece.
He is documenting life in different continents, to dig up social commentary issues and occasions that the human rights are encroached. Last years, he is covering the refugee crisis in Greece, breaking news, disasters' aftermaths, and stories.
Konstantinos has dedicated a big part of the last years of his life to travel and has been working on several documentary storytelling projects in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Turkey, India, Lebanon, Greece and other countries worldwide.
He collaborates with the photographic agencies Nur Photo, SOOC images & Associated Press, while he is also working for magazines and newspapers in Greece such as Vice, Kosmodromio, etc. His work has also been published in magazines and newspapers as DerSpiegel, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, DailyMail, Libération, CNN among others.
ACADEMIC EDUCATION
2017, Velios School of Arts - Degree in Fine Arts
Masterclasses, Seminars, Workshops
2023 - present: Documentary Seminar: From concept to screenplay with director Maria Leonida
2023, Narrative and Documentary Practice, interdisciplinary seminar with Dr. Paul Lowe at VII Academy, online & Kosovo
2023, Street documentary photography seminar with Thodoris Nikolaou, Kosovo
2022, Street documentary photography seminar with Thodoris Nikolaou, Albania - Montenegro - Bosnia - Serbia - North Macedonia
2022, Workshop "Social Recording" with Dimitris Michalakis, Athens, Greece
2019, Masterclass in Contemporary Photojournalism with Giorgos Moutafis, Athens, Greece
Group Exhibitions
2023 : Photometria - Emerging Roots, Judged by Martin Parr, Ioannina, Greece
2023 : Photosynthesis International Festival, Athens, Greece
2023 : #PRESS_photostories, Thessaloniki, Greece
2023 : " Picturing Crisis ", Athens, Greece
2022 : #PRESS_photostories, Thessaloniki, Greece
2020: "Anthropause" - MOMus Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece
2020: "CITY VS QUARANTINE"- International Art Project, Lviv, Ukraine
Solo Exhibitions
2016-2017: "In the heart of Africa", Athens, Greece
Achievements
2018 : STREET PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST - Streethunters