Dimitris Soulas

Dimitris Soulas (born 1938), is a former Greek photojournalist. He worked as an independent photojournalist in Germany between 1967 and 1974.

Soulas was born in 1938 in Thessaloniki from a family originated from Souli. For the years 1960 to 1965, he studied economics at the Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt and Sociology at the Institute for Social Research.

After his dismissal, he began working as a freelance photojournalist selling his photos to newspapers. Soon, he became an associate of the Associated Press, while newspapers of Munich assigned projects to him. During his career as a photojournalist, he worked for notable magazines of Germany, such as Stern, Quick, Neue Revue, and worked with Magnum agency.

In 1974, after the Greek Junta collapse, he returned in Greece. Estimating that photojournalism had still not matured in Greece, he decided to quit working as a professional photographer and he turned toward business and trade. In 1977 he established an import business for children's toys and subsequently worked as a marketing consultant. Now, he lives in Garmisch and Thessaloniki and works in a film documentary.

In 2004, Soulas donated his archive to the Fotomuseum of the Munich Stadtmuseum. In 2008, the Museum organized a retrospective exhibition on the work of Dimitris Soulas which was shown in many European cities.