Konstantinos Megalokonomos was born in Izmir (Turkey) and settled in Athens (Greece) after the end of the Greco-Turkish war of 1921-1922. He became involved with photo reporting while he was still attending secondary school. He founded the “Greek Photo News – K. Megalokonomos” agency in 1960. His archive has been preserved; it includes precious material that dates from the interwar period until the late 20th century. He died in 1992.
Nikolaos Mazarakis was an associate of the journal Grammata.
Athina Theodorou was married to Emmanouil Maximos. The couple lived in Alexandria (Egypt). She took over the upbringing of her niece Eleni Cavafy (subsequently Coletti) as well as the management of her property (Athina Maximou was her mother’s sister).
John N. Mavrogordato was born in London (England) in 1882. A scholar in Modern Greek letters, a Byzantinist and a translator, he was the successor of R. M. Dawkins at the Chair of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. He translated poems by Cavafy into English and was himself a man of letters. He died in 1970.
Alexandros A. Matsas (1910-1969) was born and died in Athens (Greece). He studied Law and Political Science at Athens and Oxford, and was a career diplomat (serving in Egypt -Mansoura and Alexandria- during 1937-1939), until before the 1967 military coup in Greece. He published four collections of poems (1925-1964) and wrote three plays.
Dimitrios N. Martimianakis was a known and prizewinning professional photographer. He had a photographic studio, initially at Aigio (Peloponnese, Greece, ca. 1870) and later in Athens (ca. 1876). He took pictures of the first modern Olympics in Athens (1896) and exhibited his work at Greek and international fairs. It seems that in the 1890s he was professionally active also in Piraeus (Greece), while later he opened a studio in Cairo (Egypt) as well. He was the personal photographer of the then crown prince Constantine, while his daughter Eleftheria was a professional photographer as well.