Niko J. Kallianiotis: Athenai, In Search of Home

Niko J. Kallianiotis (b. 1973 Athens, Greece) is a photographer and educator working between Athens, Greece and the United States. His formative years were spent in Greece, but for all of his adulthood he lived and worked in the United States, both in the editorial and academic fields. Because of his hybrid background he views the world and his surrounding environs from two different perspectives, both culturally and socially. Kallianiotis started his career as a newspaper photographer and has worked at The Times Leader, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Gannett Newspapers in Ohio, The Watertown Daily Times in Watertown, New York, and has been a contributor for The New York Times. He has also taught at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Marywood University and the University of Scranton. He currently resides in Athens, Greece where he works on documentary projects.