Born in 1962, Spyros Tsakiris grew up in the small town Zaharo of Peloponnesus, in Greece. From his early years he developed a strong relationship with photography. In 1987, Eleftherotypia, one of the largest daily Greek newspapers, hired him as a photojournalist, covering local and international social and political issues. He is currently the chief-photographer of the same newspaper and its weekly magazine Geotropio. He has covered many crises, conflicts and wars, such as civil wars in Rwanda, Lebanon and Bosnia, the 1989 crisis in Kosovo, war in former Yugoslavia, crises in Romania and Albania, the downfall of the Soviet Union, Gulf War, famine in Africa, Kurds, etc.Other than being present in the most troubled parts of the world, Tsakiris has journeyed across numerous countries concentrating his interest at the diversity of human activity and the relation between man and environment. He has traveled through Jordan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Armenia, Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, Egypt, Cyprus, Netherlands, Belgium, Hungary, and Austria.He has cooperated with the French agency Imapress and with the German Action Press. His work is published by magazines throughout the world including Stern, Time, Newsweek, Paris Match, the Greek and the Spanish National Geographic, the Flame of Life, Focus, Georama, Epsilon, Diphono, etc. He has organized personal and participated in several collective exhibitions in galleries, museums, and photography festivals. He has accomplished long time projects presenting subjects like: “Children facing the new centuryâ€, “Greek Men of the Pressâ€, “Fishermenâ€, “Man and Environmentâ€, “Travelâ€.During the last few years he is interested in filmmaking. He became one of the founding members of a film producers group, named “4 Eyes Zoneâ€. He shot four documentary films: the short films “Vrooom†32’, “Baïassa-Vovoussa†17’ and “The treasure of Lagoon†17’ which won a National Geographic award in 2003 and was shown to the festival Ecocinema 2003, as well as the feature documentary film “Flamingo†90’, regarding the Greek music band Pix Lax. He is also directing the performances of Alma Utopia, a dance group open to new ideas and ventures.SPYROS TSAKIRIS
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