Pavlos Fysakis is an Athens-based artist working with lens based media.

Founder of the non-profit cultural organization KOLEKTIV8 and of the art collective Depression Era (2011-2019), which has been documenting the social landscape of the Greek crisis through images and texts. Founder and artistic director of the Mediterranean Photography Festival (MedPhoto) taking place since 2016 in Rethymno, Crete, organizing various international exhibitions in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, workshops, public discussions, publications, and the Nomadic Library, a mobile photography book collection traveling across Greece.

He has published two books: “Land Ends” (2010) and “Documents of Breathing” (2023 – in collaboration with Pasqua Vorgia). He has presented his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. His artworks can be found in the collection of the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete, Onassis foundation and in private collections.

In his work he repeatedly explores the notion of boundaries, memory, and time, and how their interconnections to politics, identity, mobility, transgression, transformation, or liminality.

Website: www.pavlosfysakis.com
Instagram: @fysakis
www.medphoto.gr
www.nomadiclibrary.gr
depressionera.gr