Stergios Tsioumas

Stergios Tsioumas carried a camera like a notebook, snapping street scenes and portraits in black and white while everyone else chased color. He once spent a year photographing John F. Kennedy’s lone Greek bodyguard—just the man’s shoes, the pavement, the empty look on his face. That quiet obsession with small, overlooked details makes his work feel like a side door into bigger stories. Start with his 1995 painting *Ζέλντα G*—a swirling, semi-abstract take on Zelda Fitzgerald that still hums with the same restless energy as his photos of Athens at dawn.