Socrates Baltagiannis was born in Athens, Greece in 1979. Although photography was always in the back of his head, he studied and worked as a graphic designer until 2011. A self-taught photographer, in 2009 he participated in photography seminars at www.faos.gr under the guidance of John Galanis and since then he has been working as a freelance photographer, mainly in the fields of photojournalism and documentary photography.