Spyros Staveris
Photo: Paris Tavitian
Spyros Staveris was born in 1952 in Αthens. Until 1974 he lived in France and in 1985 he settled permanently in Greece. He studied history at the Université Paris VII and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Since 1989 he has been working as a photographer, mainly for the Greek press but also occasionally for foreign newspapers and magazines.
He has held solo exhibitions at venues such as Galerie Imagine (Paris), Elika Gallery (Αthens), and the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, among others, and has participated in various group exhibitions, especially in recent years as a member of the Depression Era collective. His photographs are included in various publications, such as the catalogues “The Dispersed Urbanity of the Aegean Archipelago” (2006) and “Kivotos” (2010), which accompanied the Greek participations in the Venice Architecture Biennale, in the albums “Greece Through Photography” (Melissa, 2007) and “Place and People of the Olympic Committee” (2004), as well as in the special edition “Still Lifes” of Vice magazine.
In 2012, in the framework of the 53rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Panos Thomaidis produced the documentary “Spyros Staveris: Image Thief”. Three of his books have been published so far: “When, When”, co-written with Efthimis Filippou (MNP, Athens, 2018), “There Is Nothing Behind a Photograph” (Polis, Αthens, 2021), and “Chambres de voyageurs” (Kolektiv8, Αthens, 2022). His works belong to private collections and the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography.
