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PETROS KTENAS

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Director / Cinematographer / Photographer

Sydney · Singapore · Queenstown · New York

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Petros Ktenas is an Australian photographer and filmmaker known for cinematic automotive and lifestyle imagery, and honest, character-driven portraits of people doing remarkable things.

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Named among Lürzer’s Archive Top 200 Photographers Worldwide (2022/21) and Top 200 Digital Artists (2024/23), Petros has spent more than 15 years creating images for advertising, editorial and commercial clients across Australia and internationally.

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His work sits somewhere between the precision of advertising photography and the instinct of documentary filmmaking. Whether photographing a car on an open road, a founder inside the business they built, or someone quietly changing the world around them, Petros is interested in images that feel cinematic without feeling manufactured.

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Increasingly, his focus is on people and stories that matter: founders, innovators, leaders, craftspeople and everyday people doing extraordinary things. Drawing on his experience as a cinéma vérité documentary director and cinematographer, he works observationally, allowing real moments, personality and emotion to emerge rather than over-directing them.

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That same philosophy informs his automotive and lifestyle work. Beautiful light, strong composition and considered production remain important, but the image needs to feel lived-in. Real people. Real environments. Real moments.

For Petros, photography is ultimately about storytelling.

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Finding something worth looking at, understanding why it matters, and making an image that makes someone else feel it too.