Alexandros Vrettakos was born in 1964 in Kozani, where
he currently lives. He is a gym instructor and a basketball
coach. Concurrently, he teaches photography in the
Photography Laboratory of Kozani. Originally, he studied
photography in Novi-Sad (Yugoslavia) and his related
work comprises 13 personal exhibitions, such as Black-and-White,
Just before and after, The glass eye, Acrobats, The
decline of a sunrise, and others.
He is involved with black-white photography and his
themes come from the street. He develops and prints
his own photographs because he believes that the process
ends only after the image is displayed on paper. There
is no digital intervention in his photographs but just
maskings during the printing process, created by hand.
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About photography
The perception of our world through our sight creates the misconception
that we see and understand what happens around us.
Photography provides the opportunity to explore, locate, isolate
and emphasize what is seen and in this way create a different
reality of our own.
The photographic machine is an unparalleled magical box. It can
capture so much important vitality in it, still and silent, as
a filter that distinguishes the superfluous from the necessary
and creates unique worlds in which everyone finds something intimate,
forgotten and stranded from life and time.
Alexandros Vrettakos
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