He graduated from the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and went on to obtain his Master's degree in Translation at the University of Strasbourg. He is working at the Communication & Publications Department of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, as a film critic-columnist at the daily newspaper Typos Thessalonikis (Press of Thessaloniki), as a columnist at the online magazine Thessalonikeon Polis (City of Thessalonians), as an external collaborator at the Thessaloniki Walking Tours team, as a pre-selection evaluator at the International Competition section of the Drama International Short Film Festival, as well as a freelance translator-editor-proofreader. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the cinema website cinedogs.gr, and has served as the coordinator, content creator and main writer in the collective cinema-oriented books John Cassavetes: Don't Believe the Truth and David Lynch: Now It’s Dark, published by Kypseli editions, having also contributed to numerous editions released by the Greek Association of Film Critics. He has translated the books Like Zapata and Che? The Zapatistas and the Bolivian Cocaleros (Akyvernites Polities, co-translation with Annita Chatzikou), Nomadland (Kypseli) and History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines (Pedio). In the past, he has worked as a translation and legal terminology teacher at the French Institute of Thessaloniki and the University of Strasbourg.

My name is Christina Kakani and I am twenty-one (21) years old. I am a third-year student of the Department of Education and Social Policy of the University of Macedonia, with specialization in Special Education. Since my childhood I started to be involved in the photography, because of my father’s profession, who is a photographer and has his own photography studio. For the last three (3) years I have been undertaking and personal professional photo shootings, but also the management of social media business. I am a volunteer at the R.o.D.i. Festival, with my main task being capturing the various activities of this festival. At the same time, I am an athlete and in my personal life I like to travel.

Nikos Nikopoulos is a photographer, photography teacher, and curator at the creative photography workshop ‘My Outside World,’ which is part of the programs of the  Special Education Center for Children with Special Needs K.E.E.P.E.A. ‘Horizons.’ He  volunteers as a photographer with the Down Syndrome Association of Greece and the  Special Olympics. He was born in Athens. He first encountered photography in 2017 by  attending the photography workshop of the Municipality of Peristeri, with teacher Vasilis  Nikas. He then attended photography seminars for beginners and advanced students with  Loukas Vasilikos. He has participated in solo and group photography exhibitions in Athens  and Thessaloniki. His photographs are featured on book covers and within books. He has  created photographic projects curated by Vasilis Nikas (‘Les Autres’) and Loukas Vasilikos  (‘Humility,’ ‘Individual Sessions,’ ‘Rawt’). His work has been presented in photography clubs and workshops. He was a speaker at the 1st and 3rd ‘RoDi: The Reflection of Disability in  Art’ festival, with a talk on the experiential relationship between the photographer and  disability.

Katerina Saranti was born in 1984 in Rhodes. She is a graduate of the photography department of IEK AKMI. Her involvement with photography began in 2011  with the photography group of the University of Crete and the artistic seminar led by Loukas Vasilikos. She has participated in several group exhibitions of both analog and  digital photography, as well as programs related to photography, such as the European  program “Zoom into the World” (2011-2012) and the Municipality of Athens program “Night  Day,” the Art Thessaloniki International Contemporary Art Fair 2019, the art exhibition  “Human Trace” curated by Panos Kapralos, and the exhibition of the Photometria Festival  2019, “I Have a Dream.” She has also received honorary distinctions, the most notable of  which is the 1st place in the European competition “Run for Art” in 2016. She has worked  as a photographer and is currently employed as a public servant. She has focused on her  athletic career, being an active paratriathlete, while also working on her personal  photography projects.

Anna Ch. Papachristou is a Psychologist and works at the EKEC AMEA in Thessaloniki. She worked for 16 years with individuals with Down syndrome, founding the first photography group exclusively for these individuals. She has been taking photography  essons with instructor Tasos Schizas since 2020 and is a member of the Photography Group  F. She has participated in group exhibitions with various photography groups in Greece and  abroad and has been awarded second place in the 12th Panhellenic Photography Competition  of the Photography Club of Volos.