Biography

Alexandros Vrettakos was born in 1964 in Kozani, where he still lives. He works as a sports teacher in secondary education and as basketball coach. He studied photography in Novi-Sad, Serbia from 1986 till 1989. In the ’90 he taught Photography in courses organized by the Perfecture of Kozani (NELE) and in Institutes for Further Education also in Kozani. In 2002 he founded in collaboration with the Municipality of Kozani the Photography Group “Photodiodos”, where he still teaches analog as well as digital photography. He has done nineteen personal exhibitions. He mainly prefers black and white photography. Street photography is the kind of photography that inspires him as far as it concerns his topics. He develops and prints his pictures on his own, because he believes that the photographing process only ends when the final picture is printed on the paper. He doesn’t intervene digitally in his pictures; he only uses his hands in the darkroom to have the desirable results for his pictures. He has been working on digital photography since 2002, where he has been experimenting, in order to understand better its potential. He continues at the same time classical anthropocentrical street photography, as it was presented by photographers of the last century, because he firmly believes that life is somewhere out there, between skies and oceans, mountains and roads, where man meets the light!       www.vrettakos.gr

EXHIBITIONS

1993 January, Individual Exhibition, " A Dawn in the West ",

Folklore Museum of Kozani

1994 December, Individual Exhibition, "Glass Eye",
Exhibition area of ​​the Municipality of Kozani

1997 November, Individual Exhibition, "White - Black",
Folklore Museum of Kozani

1999 November, Individual exhibition, "Passing by",

Photographic Center of Thessaloniki

2000 November, Individual Exhibition, "Just before - shortly after", Exhibition area of ​​the Municipality of Kozani

2001 December, Individual Exhibition, "Acrobats",
Exhibition area of ​​the Municipality of Kozani

2002 January, Individual Exhibition, "Grant",
Exhibition area of ​​the Municipality of Kozani

2003 May, Individual Exhibition at the Lodge International Photography Festival (Poland)

2005 February, Individual Exhibition, "Behind the Mask",
Exhibition area of ​​the Municipality of Kozani

2008 November, Participation in a group exhibition "Time",

 at the Photobiennale of the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

2010 April, Individual Exhibition, "A Dawn in the West",

 at the Photobiennale of the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

2011 February, Individual Exhibition, " For rent".

 Exhibition area of ​​the Municipality of Kozani

2011 October Individual exhibition on 'Myths' at the Thessaloniki Contrast Photography Festival. National Bank Educational Foundation in Thessaloniki

2012 June, Individual Exhibition, "Let's Go across"
(organized by ……) Folklore Museum of Kozani

2013 October Individual Exhibition on "The Fairies of the Lake". Exhibition area of ​​Kozani Municipality.

2013 March Photography Exhibition, "The Magig box"

with Platon Rivellis the exhibition area of ​​the Municipality of Kozani.

2014 July Individual exhibition, "Logos",

at the Photobiennale of the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography.

2019 August Individual exhibition, “The Greek Crisis”,

 Slovakia SUMIAC Photography Festival