In the steps of Exodus [antikvár]

The author on the photographerBom Kavala, Greece, in 1911, Dimiwas a chemist by training. He was always enchanted by photography and showed such proficiency as an amateur that between 1933 and 1940 dozens of his pictures ended up in international exhibitions. He started his professional career as a roving free lancer and later became a portrait photographer. This was an era of mediocrity.In World War II, Dimi served as a private in the Greek Army on the Albanian front and was made corps photographer by virtue of the fact that he was the only soldier to disobey regulations by putting a camera in his knapsack.During the German Occupation he undertook the hazardous job of recording the destitution and starvation for the International Red Cross. His photos had to be smuggled from the country.280Since the war his assignments have included work for the United States Information Service, Associated Press, CARE, the United Nations, the Queen's Fund, and the ECA. He organized the photographic section of the Anglo-Greek Information Service and has served as staff newsreelman for CBS in Greece. In the latter field, he has shot several documentary films, including work for the Greek Tourist Bureau. His hobby is his work and the collection of folk music. Recently, in the Art Institute of Chicago exhibition of the best of Greek photography, thirteen out of forty-two photographs were his. The acknowledged master in Greece, Dimi's pictures have appeared in most American magazines at one time or another and he is the only Greek photographer represented in the great Family of Man.Leon Uris