ABOUT US

Giannis Zarzonis was born in 1972.

What started as a hobby and passion during high school, his interest in taking pictures soon evolved into a career as a professional photographer. In 1992, he moved to Thessaloniki where he established his photographic business activity and in 1995 launched his postcard and poster editions. In 1998, “Zarzonis Editions” extended to include photography books and, in 2004, numerous travel guides were also released.

During the last thirty years, Giannis Zarzonis has been working with a great number of nationwide print magazines, among them the Greek edition of the National Geographic Traveler, while he also regularly engages in travel photography collaborations with multiple corporations, municipalities, prefectures, regions and ministries.

In 2011, he founded the Escape Greece project, wherein he photographs every region of Greece in an effort to create an extensive image bank named Greek Images.

In 2022 the travel portal“www.themountolympus.com“, for the Mount Olympus, the mythical mountain in Greece, was completed.

At the same time, it systematically photographs the entire axis of the old Via Egnatia from Istanbul to Durres in Albania and all points of interest on both sides of the current Egnatia Road for the completion of the travel and cultural portal “Via Egnatia Route”

Recently he has embarked on the photo documentation of the Greek Silk Road, having undertaken the planning and establishment of the www.greeksilkroad.com travel portal, aiming to create a visual tribute to a cultural route.

As of 2015, his professional interest focuses on the use of new technologies such as aerial photography, videography, time lapse, hyper lapse, star trial, 360° photos and videos, VR Tours, and underwater photography.