Welcome to Africa

Kyriakos Kaziras is a professional photographer, Greek and French, now living in France.

Born in Greece, his passion for photography and painting began at an early age, thanks to the influence of his two grandfathers, one an artist and the other a keen amateur photographer.

During his first trip to southern Africa, he fell in love with the immensity of the veldt, the light and the animals. Since then, he has never stopped travelling all over Africa. Yet he does not consider himself an adventurer or an explorer. All his work is carefully prepared upstream as a storyboard.

Each of his photographs is a painting playing on shadows and lights. He gladly acknowledges being enthusiastic about the film Heimat by Edgar Reitz, whose every shot was composed as a photograph.

Very influenced by the painting, notably by the deep textured blacks of Pierre Soulages, Kyriakos Kaziras has a very pictorial approach to photography.