Iraklis Kougemitros

Iraklis Kougemitros was born in Athens, Greece where he still works and lives.
He has studied music technology and saxophone, and since 2009 photography has become an essential mean to express himself.
One can see some of his work on Instagram @iraklisk_htakat and on his personal website.
He has taken part in International photo contests with great success and was a finalist in the street photography category. Some of the most important competitions are:
– “MSPF”, The Miami street photography festival Awards, 2018 + 2019
–  LensCulture Street Photography Awards, 2019
– “IPA” International Photography Awards, honorable mention 2019, for the series “psych/logic”
– “ISPF”, Italian street photo festival, 2019
He was also a winner in the Street Photography Series project at the following:
– Street photo awards, 2018
– Featureshot, 2019
– National Award Winner Greece 2020 for Sony World Photography Awards, “SWPA”
and
– “ISPF”, Italian Street Photo Festival, 2nd place for “Street Photography Series”, 2020
Iraklis is a self-taught photographer and likes to capture on his camera elements of the urban environment. For him, detail is important and plays a leading role, while humans are most often present in his frames as figures. His main tools are shadow, color and geometry˙ with photography he always tries to tell short stories and through that to explain and redefine “the meanings”.