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Carlo Marcozzi was a professional photographer working in Milan (Italy). In 1877 he took over the studio of Luigi Montabone (after his death in the same year), which had been in operation since 1852. He participated in the Industrial Exhibition of Milan in 1881 and subsequently collaborated with Somani.

Kimon E. Marengo (1904-1988) was born in Zefta, Egypt. He was the son of Evangelos Marengo, a tradesman from Lemnos (Greece). During his stay in Egypt he was publishing the satirical magazine Maalesh, illustrating it himself and signing as “KEM”. He went to Paris in 1929 to study Political Science at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques. At the same time he was publishing sketches in several newspapers and journals (Le Petit Parisien, Le Canard Enchaîné, Daily Herald, Daily Telegraph). In 1939 he settled in London. He studied at Oxford, and during World War II he collaborated with the Foreign Office, drawing propaganda sketches, postcards and posters. He became a British citizen and lived in England for the rest of his life.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Nikolaos Mazarakis was an associate of the journal Grammata.

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.