Dimitri Karakostas was born in 1988 in Toronto, Ontario. He has spent more than twenty years making photographs Approximately 100,000 photographic negatives exist from the period before he began working primarily digitally. The digital archive has not been counted. and then putting those photographs into books More than 200 artist books have passed through publishing projects he has operated or worked for. Many were deliberately inexpensive; some were free., alongside periods working in publishing This part of the story can be expanded later., cybersecurity and web development This part of the story can be expanded later., apparel design This part of the story can be expanded later., making music videos and skateboard films This part of the story can be expanded later., hacking video games This part of the story can be expanded later., and, to be vague, on the internet. At various points, a surprising number of people encountered his work online. This did not make anything clearer.
He doesn’t do much of this anymore, but you can view a partial archive of the work here.
His current work is concerned with documentary photography and the unreliable construction of personal history, whatever that means. He’s been working on a novel about that for a while now. In real life, he’d probably just describe himself as a farmer in New Brunswick.
You can email him here if you'd like.