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Having studied Cinema and Photography, he is known for his compositions and his use of natural and artificial light.

People who influenced him were among others Tilemachos Kanthos, Adamantios Diamantis, Pavlos Xhioutas in Cyprus. Artists like Caravaggio, Gustav Klimt and Andy Warhol have definitely influenced his work as well as other famous personalities, Patrick Demarchellier, George Hartman (Art Director, Glamour Magazine) and Buddy Radisch (Creative Director, Grey Advertising) and others from the worldwide fashion scene. He has also been surrounded by great names in the musical world.

In the 1960s he moved to London where he started his career from his studio in Bond Street as a portrait photographer for the artistic scene in London, for interviews and editorials. He soon became an assistant at John French's studio and developed into a top photographer for Vogue. Tony Moussoulides is the first Cypriot photographer who worked with world known fashion magazines and newspapers such as Marie Claire, Elle, Honey, Sunday Times Magazine and Glamour, in London, Milan and New York. He represented Britain at the Milan Film festival with his documentary "Splifs, Joints and Pot" in 1966. More recently he has worked on a TV drama series, The Booker for which both HBO and ITV had shown interest.

In 1971, he was invited to cover Paris collections for Marie Claire and later on, collections in Milan and New York on behalf of renowned fashion magazines. He then joined the avant garde group photographers in New York fashion world, and his name was added to the very few Europeans who worked with editorial and advertisement.

The striking picture "The Water Nymph" inspired by Gustav Klimt (Water Nymphs, 1899) awarded Tony Moussoulides the Art Directors Award in New York. He had "cropped" the face of Cathie Dahmen, reducing it to the eyes, nose and lips, as the ears and hair were cut off the frame. Moussoulides commented that this is the picture which made Andy Warhol decide to have his portrait photographed by him. Warhol had asked him how he wished to photograph him and Moussoulides answered "As a Byzantine Emperor against the striped background of the American flag". On the 28th of January in 1972, Moussoulides made Andy Warhol's portrait. With the "Water Nymph" it is believed that he became the pioneer of a new style and influenced a great number of photographers, amongst them one being Mario Testino in his famous portrait of Kate Moss. These two pictures were displayed side by side in Moussoulide's exhibition two years ago.

He lectured on Photography and Lighting at the University of the Arts London, London College of Fashion, Amsterdam and New York. He was chosen to photograph at the Royal Burlington House in Piccadilly, London.

Today Moussoulides likes to call himself an "International image maker".

He lives quietly in Cyprus in his picturesque apartment, in the company of his parrot Rorigo. After having achieved all he had set to do in his life, he lives with one ambition only, that of developing this academy in Cyprus where subjects will be taught in English and in Greek with the vision of encouraging future talents in the country, and being established as an international center of photography. Through the academy, Moussoulides wishes to pass on his knowledge and experimentation which have accumulated during a very successful career.