Born in Greece in 1972, Nektarios (Nerris) Markogiannis studied Economics at the University of Essex, Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication and History of Photography at the University of St. Andrews. After a successful career in investment banking in the UK, his passion for photography prevailed and he left the financial services to take up photography. He has worked for the United Nations
PeaceKeeping Operations, collaborated with the FOTOGRAFEVI gallery in Istanbul and his work has been shown in Los Angeles (Venice Arts), London (Hotshoe Gallery) as well as in various publication (Reuters, Iz, Fortune, Brookings Institute, Huffington Post, and the HillTimes, among others). He has worked extensively in Kosovo, Darfur, Haiti, Liberia, Central African Republic, Indian and Myanmar. His work from Darfur (Fragments of Darfur: Two years in the filed as a UN Photographer) was published in 2013, and his second book, “Expressions
of Life, a book on Breast Cancer in Haiti, was published in 2016. In 2019, hiswork from South Sudan was selected for the Month of Photography in LA, won him the Pollux Awards in the Documentary and Reportage Singles category. He currently works on a long-term project on the Displaced people in South Sudan.