loannis Lykouris is born in Athens, Greece. He studied law at the University of Athens and accomplished his post-graduated studies in Civil and Commercial Law at the University of Paris II, France. Today, he is working as a lawyer in Piraeus and he is the Deputy Legal Counselor of the Hellenic Post SA.

He was keen on photography very early. At the age of 12 years, he signed up as member of the Hellenic Photographic Society, thereby becoming its ever youngest member. Since 1993, he is a member of the Administrative Council of the Hellenic Photographic Society and since 1997 the Greek Liaison Officer in the International Federation of Photographic Art (FlAP).

In the year 2010 he became member of the Directory Board of FlAP and one year later he assumed the responsibilities both of the Direction of the FlAP Biennial Service and of the Vice Presidency of the Hellenic Photographic Society. Since 2012, he is elected as Secretary General of FlAP.

He often creates diaporamas, sometimes accompanied by his own music and likes landscape photography, portrait, photojournalism and digitalphotography. For the past 5 years, he has been working mainly on nude photography, trying to give his models graphic shapes that go beyond body forms.