Ο Dimitris Tosidis was born in Thessaloniki in 1986 and lives there. He studied at the School of Fine Arts / Film Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and at UDK Berlin and is attending the postgraduate program Risk Communication and Crisis Journalism of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He works as a photojournalist at the Athens News Agency–Macedonian Press Agency (ANA-MPA) and as a correspondent for EPA, and regularly contributes to Deutsche Welle and XINHUA. He focuses mainly on political/social issues, culture, sports/extreme sports and visual storytelling. He has been awarded many times for his work, most notably the Migration Media Award in 2017 and 2018 for his work on the refugee crisis in the Balkan region.