Athens, Greece, six months experience in a portrait studio.
Stockholm, Sweden, two years experience in a commercial studio, first as an assistant, then as a main photographer.
Extensive travel and taking photographs.
Picture editor and photographer for the Athenian - The Greek / English magazine.
Early 1980's opened first studio in Athens, upgrading to bigger premises on two subsequent occasions, covering commercial photography including: brochures, fashion, portraits and travel etc.
Commissioned to write a book, (The Aesthetics of Photography) - 3 print runs.
Photography exhibitions in Athens, Sallonica, Paris, Zurich and Stockholm. Both group and one man shows, Happenings and Multi Media.
Commissioned for Travel and Commercial Photographs for several European countries, Pakistan and India - Five books on Travel as the sole and participating photographer.
Simultaneously built up a collection of black & white Social & Documentary Photographs.
Sold studio in Athens ten years ago for personal reasons and to concentrate on Documentary Photography with Travel. Subsequently moved to the UK with his English wife, where his children were born.
In the UK he built up a new archive consisting of photos and photo series mainly from Europe, focusing on people and their lives, and this is what now interests him most.
2001 Publishing of The Alexandrian Eye a very limited edition (300 copies). Book portfolio of children in black & white, given away to friends and enemies.
All his work except the recent is kept in an archive at his office in Athens, along with relevant cuttings of his work.

Education:

Graduated from Athens High School.
Graduated from Athens College of Interior Design, including the teaching of Photography.
Attended seminars in The Psychology of Colors at the Zurich Jung Institute, for six months.

[Nowdays Markos only undertakes On Location assignments.]

[Even that Markos does not keep clippings of his work, I have taken the liberty to include some of his publishing work in the new section called Kiosk]

Anna Brien
Athens 2003