Mihail Tsikas is a photojournalist with the Australian Associated Press (AAP), based in Canberra covering Federal politics. Born in Sydney in 1966, Tsikas photography came early to him during his first year of high school. For Tsikas, photography allows him to capture instant fleeting moments with accuracy. Tsikas started working as a photojournalist at the Sydney Morning Herald in 1995. Since then he has worked for the Daily Telegraph paper and Reuters.