Description
Konstantinos Kourtidis born in Athens in 1974. He studied photography at the College of the Canyons, in Los Angeles, California and completed his studies at Middlesex university of London. In 1997 and 1998 he was honored with awards from the Journalism Association of Community Colleges in California. He has participated in group exhibitions and in 2002 at Posidonia and under the auspices of the Ministry of Mercantile Marine held a solo exhibition on the stranded boat in Greece (“Travels of Silence”) at the Vernicos Art Center at Castella.
In 2009 he participated in a group exhibition “Open Doors” curated by Paschalidou Maria and Katerina Apostolidou. He has collaborated with various magazines and photographed monuments featured in the book “Cultural Photogrammetry” of I.Varvitsiotis in 2005. In 2012 he participated in the art exhibition VLAVES, held in Athens and in 2013 he participated again in VLAVES II.
In 2002 begins a trip to Turkey which will last two months, which captures life through the social documentary. Similarly trips are also made in Egypt and Jordan. From 2009 until today teaches photography at seminars and workshops, and from 2012 teaches photography at the Vellios School Of Art, he continues to photograph professionally and prepare new work for art exhibitions.
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