Photography was always part of my life. When I was little, my dad always carried a camera with him everywhere we went and made me pose for him until he got the perfect shot. Sometimes it felt like hours, and I used to complain so much, but now I am happy he did.
I bought my first camera at 14, spending all my childhood savings, which mostly came from collecting forgotten coins from the pockets of my unsuspecting family.
At college, when I studied in Cyprus, I took a semester of studio photography and photojournalism. Working inside the studio felt too staged for me, but walking the streets of Nicosia and capturing moments that were about to slip into the past, yet I could freeze them, that is what I fell in love with.
While traveling the world, I also fell in love with landscape photography, but I missed the spark that only people can bring to a photo. So for the past five years, I have been a photographer in Hawaii, capturing couples madly in love, kids running around the beach excited to spot a whale breach or a turtle resting, and people starting new chapters by getting down on one knee or saying their “I do” forever.
