He was born in Kastoria and moved to the United States in 1948, where he graduated from Rutgers University in 1959. His works analyze the everyday, familiar objects, giving them a perspective of ambiguity, presenting the unseen and uncontrollable side of them, and creating a disoriented setting.
His famous boxes include scissors, knives, forks, razorblades, pins, stuffed birds, creating an inviting and at the same time repellent result. He also experimented with the aesthetic possibilities of the film and challenged the impersonal character of the medium. During the 1970s, he searched for self-communication in a series of auto-Polaroid's stating: "What I really wanted to be was an actor. Basically, I am a performer".
Zagori is an area of great natural beauty and unique architecture in the Pindus Mountains in Epirus in Northwestern Greece. The area is of about 1.000 square kilometers and contains 46 villages. Zagoria villages is called by Greeks “Zagorochoria” meaning the villages behind the mountain.
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In 1989, Professor of Byzantine Studies, Helen Ahrweiler is appointed Chairman of the Cultural Centre Pompidou in Paris