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Greek photographer John Hios has been working behind a camera since 1974. having studied a wide variety of subjects, from Mass Media, Propaganda and Photography in New York to Archaeology at the British Archaeological Institute, as well as a period as a Master Offset Pressman in the United States, gaining a good understanding of the printing business. Although he has a particular interest in photographing the Classical past of Greece, especially in black and white, the photographer has also worked freelance for a number of well-known advertising agencies. He has also contributed to a number of books, including works on Byzantine Art and Greek Art and Archaeology. Hios loves to take photographs with a 1935 Leica C camera, as well as a panoramic camera which he built by hand. akg-images is proud to represent John Hios worldwide.

		akg2-M180-A2-22-1 A fragment of an Archaic sculpture of a rider, circa 565 BC, found in the rubble of the Acropolis. The work, now in the Acropolis Museum in Athens, was carved from marble taken from the Greek islands and shows traces of polychromy Photo: akg-images / John Hios

akg5GR-D2-E2-1995-1 The Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia in Delphi, built at the beginning of the 4th Century BC by the architect Theodoris of Phocaea. Photo: akg-images / John Hios

		akg3GR-U6-A2 A detail from a Late Minoan river landscape from the 16th Century BC found at Thera and now housed in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. Photo: akg-images / John Hios

akg5GR-M3-E2-1996-1 A view of a Late Hellenistic II grave circle from the 14th or 13th Century BC in Mycenae, Greece, photographed in 1996. Photo: akg-images / John Hios

		akg5GR-A1-E2-1998-4 A view of the caryatids on the Erechtheum on the Acropolis in Athens, photographed in 1998. Photo: akg-images / John Hios