Odysseas Chloridis is a freelance photographer and visual artist based in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Originally from Thessaloniki, Greece, he studied at Stereosis School of Photography, working extensively with analogue and digital techniques, dark-room printing, curating and sequencing images.
His practice moves between experimental photography, printmaking, and material intervention. Working with chemically altered prints, etched surfaces, instinctive markings, and occasional fragments of text and poetry, he treats the photograph not as a fixed image but as the starting point of a transformation. Manifesting his interest on physical images and evolving it towards book making, he recently self-published his first photobook.
He has also worked extensively as a photojournalist, having produced images for the BBC Science Focus, NZZ, Washington Post, We Animals Media and SOOC, and is available for photographic and multimedia assignments.
Publications and Features
NZZ - Volcanic eruption in Grindavik, Iceland and how the town is struggling for its survival
Washington Post - Acceptance is on the horizon for Iceland’s drag performers
BBC Science Focus - The 17 most stunning photographs of 2022 (print and digital version)
Portrait of Humanity Vol. 4 Shortlist, book by 1854 Media and the British Journal of Photography, published by Hoxton Mini Press
Awards and Scholarships
2022: VII Academy Central and South Eastern Europe: Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
Shortlisted at Helsinki Photo Festival 2023
Fresh Eyes 2023 Finalist in the conceptual photography category
Exhibitions
(Im)possible Worlds Group Exhibition, Mulhouse Photo Bienniale
Festival della Fotografia Etica, Lodi, Italy
FLÆÐI gallery collective exhibition, August 2023, Reykjavik, Iceland