Born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1963. He studied Graphic Design and Photography at the Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, 1981-1983) and at Parsons School of Design (New York, 1983-1986, BFA, Communication Design). He also attended film courses at the New School for Social Research (New York, 1985-1986).
He started exhibiting his photographic work in 1982 and in 1998 he won the first prize at the Photosynkyria Photography Festival with the exhibition and publication Journeys, 1994-1997. He published the online photography magazine wip.gr from 2008 to 2016 (19 issues). He has had 3 solo exhibitions and he participated in numerous group exhibitions.
His short film Vista was selected for the 2nd Biennale of Young Artists from Mediterranean Europe, in Thessaloniki, in 1987. He has directed numerous music videos.
He founded the graphic design firm Red Creative in 1989. With his collaborators at Red Creative he compiled and published the book Thessaloniki Graphic Design, 1980-2009. Selected works from the book were exhibited in Thessaloniki and Athens. Red Creative is still active in the field of visual communication.
Contact:
simos@redcreative.gr
Group exhibitions
“Aretsou – Nea Krini”, curated by Hercules Papaioannou, Thessaloniki Municipal Gallery
“Repositories of Time”, curated by Kostis Antoniadis, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography
“Transphotometafores, trajectories and intersections”, curated by Hercules Papaioannou, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art
“6 x 2”, curated by Kostis Antoniadis, Orama Gallery
“Families”, Amalgama artists initiative
“Hariklia”, The photographers at Mylos, Dimitria, Mylos
“Duets”, 10 contemporary Thessaloniki Photographers, curated by Aris Georgiou, Port Authority of Thessaloniki
1982-1989: Various group exhibitions at Mikri Pinakothiki Diagonios
Solo exhibitions
“Journeys”, 1994-1997, curated by Eleni-Maria Tsouka, Eirmos Gallery
“Dance 2”, De Facto
“Dance 1”, Mikri Pinakothiki Diagonios
Books
“Journeys, 1994-1997”, published by Red Creative
Contributions to Published Works
“Eternal Thessaloniki, a collective snapshot of the 21st century”, published by University Studio Press
“City of women”, published by Tzimas Cosmetics
“Thessaloniki: a city of people, photographs from the 20th century”, published by University Studio Press
Athens Photo Festival, Hellenic Centre of Photography
“Sites of memory”, curated by Penelope Petsini, published by the Hellenic Center of Photography
“Manolis Anagnostakis, 12 poems, 12 photographs”, curated by Hercules Papaioannou, published by Nefeli
“Aretsou – Nea Krini”, curated by Hercules Papaioannou, published by University Studio Press
“Repositories of Time”, curated by Kostis Antoniadis, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography
“Transphotometafores, trajectories and intersections”, curated by Hercules Papaioannou, published by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art
“Tripes, 9 paid songs”, published by Livanis
“The photography collection of Dinos Christianopoulos”, published by Kanavos
“Monologues / Dialogues”, Photosynkyria ’96, published by Camera Obscura
“Camera Obscura XIII”, published by Camera Obscura
“The photographers at Mylos”, published by Camera Obscura
“10 contemporary Thessaloniki Photographers”, published by Dimitria, Municipality of Thessaloniki
Magazine and Newspaper Articles / Press
Private. The evolution of contemporary Greek photography, published by private.it, Bologna
Prosopa, Platon Rivellis: Two similar yet different friends and photographers, Paris Petridis and Simos Saltiel published by Ta Nea.
Tefhos 12-13, International Review of Architecture
To Tram, Third season, issue 13-14