Stratis Vogiatzis

Stratis Vogiatzis was born in Chios, Greece in 1978. He is a filmmaker, a photographer and an anthropologist. He studied economic sciences in Aristotle Un. and Social Anthropology in Amsterdam dealing with children and Political violence. Among others he worked with children in Palestine, as a teacher and educator at the gypsies communities in Thessaloniki (Drom) and as a researcher for the educational ngo IALE in New Delhi.

He exhibits regularly in Greece and abroad and his works belong to museums and private collections. He has published five books with his work and he has directed several independent documentary films that distinguished and won awards in international film festivals. In 2011 he initiated with a team of artists and researchers the Caravan Project, a travelogue with a caravan around Greece with the intention to document and reveal inspiring human stories.