Based in: Athens, Greece

Biography
Aggelos Barai is a young and upcoming photographer. He specializes in photojournalism and documentary photography. Barai was born in Albania, but he did not have the chance to get to know his birth country, as he migrated at a very young age with his family to Greece . He is mainly interested in political and social issues, as his work focuses on immigration, the impact of the economic crisis on Greek society and on his country of birth, Albania. In his first professional photo journalism path, he worked as an assistant to well known Greek photographers, as well as to national and international Non Governmental Organizations (NGO), with some of whom he is still cooperating with. He has also photographed many collectives, actions and group initiatives to highlight their work and their involvement in the social public sphere. Today he works as an independent photojournalist (freelancer) for online media, newspapers and magazines as well as for news agencies in Greece and abroad. He is currently based in Athens, Greece.