Alexandros Demetriades

Alexandros Demetriades was born in 1967 in Nicosia, Cyprus. He later completed a BA in Business and Economics, and an MBA in Finance and Investments at the George Washington University in Washington D.C. In 2009, Alexandros studied cinematography at New York University. Upon graduating, he returned to Cyprus to commit to photography professionally and embarked on a personal photographic journey documenting his homeland for a period of more than two years. In the meantime, he also traveled to the Balkans, the Middle East and North Africa covering both newsworthy events but also personal projects. Alexandros is represented by Unframe photo agency.

Alexandros has received many awards for his work, including numerous International Photography Awards (IPA), Photo Annual Awards and Sigma Annual Photography from B&W Magazine; in 2012, he was nominated for the Terry O'Neil Award. In 2013 he was a finalist at the ONWARD Compé awards, won a Gold and Bronze at the Prix de la Photographie Paris (Px3) for both his work "intemporality" and the "Color of Scars". He also received awards at the San Francisco International Awards, the Fotovisura Grant awards and the City Streets Country Roads awards sponsored by PhotoPlace gallery. He was also a winner of "My story" at the New York Photo Festival as well as a 2013 New York Photo Award finalist. He was also a finalist at the PhotoLucida Awards. 

His work has been published in the International Herald Tribune, The New York Times, The International New York Times, The Sydney Herald, The New York Times Lens Blog, Leica Fotografie International,  Private Photo Review, B&W magazine, Vervephoto: a new breed of documentary photographers, The Cyprus Dossier 05: Collabo-Nation! An issue about collaborative living in times of crisis, distributed in Cyprus and Venice as part of the 2013 Venice Biennale amongst others. 

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