Dimitri Mellos’s Profile

The city is like poetry By Dimitri Mellos: 22Dec2012; “A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines”. – E.B. White, Here is New York I am more interested in poetry than fact, in the ever-so-slight transformation of reality achieved through a lyrical gaze rather than a supposedly “objective” depiction; I aim to inspire and...; Tags: New York City, Photography, street photography

Its Strangest Patterns By Dimitri Mellos: 3Dec2011; Tags: New York City, street photography

Dimitri Mellos was born in Athens, Greece. Since 2005 he's been living in New York City.

Having received little formal schooling in photography, Dimitri started photographing seriously and consistently about four to five years ago. His work has been exhibited in Greece, Barcelona, New York and Santa Fe, and is in private collections in Europe and the United States. He has received several awards for his work, including 2nd place in CENTER’s 2011 Editor’s Choice awards and 1st runner-up in Blurb's Photography Book Now 2011 contest; he was also a Finalist for the prestigious Fotovisura Grant as well as the Magnum Expression Award for 2011.

John Szarkowski said of Garry Winogrand that “his ambition was not to make good pictures, but through photography to know life”. Such an aim resonates deeply with Dimitri as well.

Website: www.dimitrimellos.com

Email: dimitrimellos@gmail.com

Phone: +1 646 217 4267