Dimitri Karakostas
b. 1988, Toronto.
Lives and works in rural New Brunswick, Canada.
karakostas.office@gmail.com

Dimitri Karakostas is a chronic publisher of writing and art books, following Mallarmé’s maxim that “Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.” His practice spans photography, writing, and archiving, with a sustained interest in overlooked places and everyday vernacular.

He treats photography as one element within larger conceptual systems, building book based series and evolving archives that are meant to be handled, copied, and reassembled over time. Images recur across projects and formats, so that meaning develops through repetition, accumulation, and circulation rather than a singular final form.

As publisher and editor, he has helped facilitate the release of more than 200 artist books across three imprints, collaborating with other artists while developing his own large scale and archival projects. Editions are frequently offered free or at cost, emphasizing access over scarcity and allowing the same images to move between zines, exhibition contexts, and institutional collections. Publishing functions as his primary medium, with photography operating as one of the tools that sustains and continually feeds these expanding structures.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026 — Incorrectly Perceived as Being Empty, Saint John Arts Centre, Saint John, CA (upcoming)
2026 — Revealer, Toner, Cornwall, UK (upcoming)
2014 — The Diplomats, Trafo Center for Contemporary Art, Szczecin, PL
2014 — Moments Like This Never Last, The Newsstand, Brooklyn, NY
2012 — Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want, 33/45, Barcelona, ES
2011 — Temporary Infinity, Lens Factory, Toronto, CA 

Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 — Wilderness of Mirrors, Below Grand, New York, NY
2025 — Photo Zine of the Year Awards, Peckham 24, London, UK
2025 — Festival of the Photocopier, Sticky Institute, Melbourne, AU
2023 — Contrary To, Lot Projects, London, UK
2022 — The Patriot, O’Flaherty’s, New York, NY
2020 — Right In The Feels, Galerie de L’Erg, Brussels, BE 
2012 — Small Press, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney AU

Selected Books
2026 — Revealer
2026 — Messy, Isn’t It?
2025 — Repressed Memory Roadtrip
2025 — Memory Fog I–V
2025 — The Dog
2024 — The Incompletionist
 
For an expanded CV and publishing history, click here.
For an archive of non-photo projects, click here.