Dimitri Karakostas was born in Toronto, raised in the American South, and now lives in rural New Brunswick. He has worked as a photographer for more than twenty years, with solo exhibitions in Toronto, New York, Glasgow, Barcelona, and elsewhere. His work has also appeared in exhibitions and publishing projects at Foam in Amsterdam, Camera Club of New York, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Yale University, Galerie de L’Erg in Brussels, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.

Karakostas began self-publishing as a teenager and founded the independent publishing house Blood of the Young in 2008. Over the following decade, the imprint published more than 200 artist books and zines and organized exhibitions worldwide. Personal projects from this period include Sometimes I Think of You Everyday (2012), a monograph developed through a three-month period of nine exhibitions in nine countries, and The Diplomats (2014), presented at TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art in Szczecin, Poland.

For much of his early career, Karakostas photographed from within the situations he inhabited, carrying a camera as a matter of habit. That work is defined by the certainty that something is happening. His current photographs reverse that premise: the frame has widened, people have largely receded, and the work increasingly asks whether anything happened at all. This recent phase has produced the multi-volume book Memory Fog and Incorrectly Perceived as Being Empty (2026), a solo exhibition at the Saint John Arts Centre in New Brunswick, both supported by ArtsNB.

Karakostas remains 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.” Since the early 2000s, he has produced an extensive body of printed matter, much of it given away or sold at cost so that the work can circulate outside institutional settings and conventional art-market channels. Books and photographs are made to be handled, passed around, and re-encountered; images routinely recur across publications, exhibitions, and archives, changing through repetition, accumulation, and circulation rather than settling into a single final form.