Autor: Wassilios Nikitakis

I am a journalist, living in Cologne, Germany. I've been interested in photography from the days, my father brought home the Time-Life photography books with all their grandeur of war, decay and beauty. And I loved the smell of the photo developer and fixer when I tried to imitate the pictures I'd seen there before. Not to mention my all-time preference for films with strong visual impact, which interested me much more than films with a strong story. What a bliss, when both components came together, as in "Blade Runner", to name just one.

13. August 201613. August 2016Wassilios Nikitakis

Nea Michaniona (Northern Greece) and the Surroundings

I know the small town of Nea Michaniona since I was a boy. We used to visit my aunt. Sometimes I slept at her apartment, watched the old greek black-and-white-pictures on her not so old television, the sounds somehow familiar but at the same time coming from a different world. She used to laugh with […]

7. Juni 20167. Juni 2016Wassilios Nikitakis

Le Bloc im Belgischen Viertel – Street Photography Cologne

Once in a while you will see the dressed up youth of the Cologne hip-quarter „Belgisches Viertel‘ getting even more dressed up. Dj’s will line up in front of fashion stores, there even is a runaway for models in a car park, showing the stuff you can buy in the countless fashion shops of this […]

26. Mai 201626. Mai 2016Wassilios Nikitakis

Death is no Egalitarian – Melatenfriedhof in Cologne

Birds are singing, squirrels are jumping over tombs, just a few people are walking around on ‘Melatenfriedhof’. The name of Cologne’s most central graveyard derives from the french word ‘malades’, because already in the 1100s there was a asylum for the invalids and lepers right on that spot. Nowadays the most splendid graves can be […]