Bio
I was born in 1972 in the city of Heraclion Crete Greece. I studied Archaeology and History of Art at the University of Crete. I graduated in 1995. During my studies I started “playing” with an Olympus manual camera. I’ve also had my first experiments in the darkroom. Since 1997, I have worked as a freelance professional photographer and photojournalist in several magazines and newspapers in Greece, such as NEA, Passport, Difono, Kathimerini, the music hall of Athens and Athens festival, Vice etc. I currently work as a photojournalist for the newspaper "H efimerida ton syndakton" EFSYN, a cooperative left newspaper, a surviving experiment in the heart of the Greek Crisis.
I consider myself a social documentary activist photographer and the last years I am totally focused on the refugees. My dream is to photograph the refugees all over the Mediterranean Sea, especially now that the media are not so interested in them anymore.
Exhibitions in Greece:
Athens on crisis documentary photography about the crisis in Athens 2013 March
https://camerastyloonline.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/vasilis_mathioudakis_ekthesi_fotografias_i_athina_stous_dromous_tis_krisis/
Calypso's dream 2014 Long exposures of Gavdos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLACkAjie7U
London:
Magnum swaps (PrintSpace), July 2017 https://www.theprintspace.co.uk/swap-shop-shortlist/
Migrate (OMEARA) refugees, August - September 2017
On Rain (Saatchi gallery) refugees February - March 2018 https://www.saatchigallery.com/schools/education_room.php at the bottom
Istanbul:
PhotoIstanbul 2017
I was born in 1972 in the city of Heraclion Crete Greece. I studied Archaeology and History of Art at the University of Crete. I graduated in 1995. During my studies I started “playing” with an Olympus manual camera. I’ve also had my first experiments in the darkroom. Since 1997, I have worked as a freelance professional photographer and photojournalist in several magazines and newspapers in Greece, such as NEA, Passport, Difono, Kathimerini, the music hall of Athens and Athens festival, Vice etc. I currently work as a photojournalist for the newspaper "H efimerida ton syndakton" EFSYN, a cooperative left newspaper, a surviving experiment in the heart of the Greek Crisis.
I consider myself a social documentary activist photographer and the last years I am totally focused on the refugees. My dream is to photograph the refugees all over the Mediterranean Sea, especially now that the media are not so interested in them anymore.
Exhibitions in Greece:
Athens on crisis documentary photography about the crisis in Athens 2013 March
https://camerastyloonline.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/vasilis_mathioudakis_ekthesi_fotografias_i_athina_stous_dromous_tis_krisis/
Calypso's dream 2014 Long exposures of Gavdos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLACkAjie7U
London:
Magnum swaps (PrintSpace), July 2017 https://www.theprintspace.co.uk/swap-shop-shortlist/
Migrate (OMEARA) refugees, August - September 2017
On Rain (Saatchi gallery) refugees February - March 2018 https://www.saatchigallery.com/schools/education_room.php at the bottom
Istanbul:
PhotoIstanbul 2017