Tzeli Hadjidimitriou


Tzeli Hadjidimitriou Greek is a fine art photographer, cinematographer, travel writer from Lesbos, Greece. She is the author of six photography books, with work shown in galleries in Greece and abroad. She is also the author of guidebooks to the Greek islands of Kythira and Lesbos and has published articles about her global travels to South Korea, India, Jordan and other destinations in the Greek Press.

Biography

Tzeli Hadjidimitriou was born in Mytilene, Lesbos in 1962. Her ancestry goes back to immigrants from the Asia Minor, in a town near today's Ismir. Since 1986, she holds a degree in Economics from the University of Thessaloniki. In 1984, she received a diploma in Italian Language and Culture from the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Thessaloníki and in 1986, followed with a master from Casa d'Italia in Athens making her an official translator for the Italian language. In 1986, she moved to Rome where she studied for two years Direction of Photography for the Cinema followed in 1985, by different seminars on cinema taught by Michelangelo Antonioni. The seminar attendance was sponsored by the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milano. Back in Greece in 1988, she completed successfully the first course offered in Greece for film editing run in collaboration with the ERT.
She worked for ten years in television and in the cinema as movie stills photographer working for different Greek directors. Among other she worked for Theodoros Angelopoulos, Tassos Boulmetis, Giorgos Panousopoulos, Giorgos Tsemperopoulos, Dimitris Vernikos and Anna Kessissoglou. She contributes regularly to different newspapers and magazines among them Geotropio, Elliniko Panorama, Elle Greece, National Geographic Greece, Cup, Coffee and Tea, Voyager. She also edits the publications containing her photographs.

Photographic books

All books are bilingual English and Greek although some are available with the dust cover only in one of the two languages:
Hadjidimitriou's works have been published by newspapers and magazines. They include;