Photographer: Nikos Pilos

Nikos Pilos is an award-winning photojournalist and one of Europe’s noted feature photographers, who is currently based in Athens. He has traveled extensively to document war, natural disasters, poverty, socioeconomic struggle and cultural shifts. His work regularly appears in leading international newspapers and magazines and has been exhibited throughout Europe and U.S. Since his first assignment in Lebanon in 1988, he has covered major historical events such as the overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the wars in former Yugoslavia, the war in Iraq - where he spent 100 days without becoming embedded with the U.S troops, and the 2006 conflict in Lebanon. He documented the humanitarian crisis on the Libya- Tunisia border in 2011, where hundreds of thousands of refugees fled Libya during the civil war. Since 2008 he has been covering the Greek and the Cypriot financial crisis, the social and political transformations in Turkey, including the Istanbul uprisings, the rise of nationalism in Europe and the current refugee crisis. The last two years he is dedicated to the realisation of the cross media interactive platform THE REFUGE.
Included in his awards: POYi. 2020,2016,2014, World Press photo 2017, NPPA 2014, CHIPP 2012, PX3 2020, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013. His work has been exhibited, among others, to, Visa Pour L’ Image Festival, Moving Walls, Contemporary Museum of Cologne, House of Photography, Hamburg, MOMus