Achilleas Alexandrakis | Gobi the Desert

Vastness – Awe – Admiration With these 3 keywords, Achilleas Alexandrakis captures his experiences on the images he creates with his photographic lens. A photographer with a free spirit and a special approach to the places he visits and the people he talks to. Achillea’s images, no matter how realistically they depict the respective landscape, take you on a journey through his intensely imaginative look and restless spirit to another dimension full of color, light and emotion. A dimension starring landscapes from another planet. The endless treacherous and frozen wild Gobi desert with its imposing sand dunes and vast arid plains with canyons and burning mountains with dinosaur fossils. The oases with the eternal glaciers, the steppes with the famous majestic Bactrian camels and the green meadows in the highlands of central Mongolia with the proud wild Takhi horses. The Yurts-Girs, the unique type of home for the nomads of this country, and of course the legendary emperor Genghis-Khan, one of the leading personalities who ever walked the earth and who influenced Western civilization. Editing / Image Manipulation: Christos Kanakis...more

Achilleas Alexandrakis, a graduate of the Semmelweis School of Dentistry and further training in cosmetic dentistry in Liechtenstein, Switzerland, lives and works permanently in Athens. Having attended for a number of years the seminar circles of the Photography Club of New Circle of Constantinople, as well as the seminars of the iFocus community, he has participated several times in group exhibitions in various places in Athens. In February 2014 he became one of the founding members of the Dental Artists Group in the field of photography, while in 2017 his first interview was presented in iFocus magazine. He mainly deals with travel photography, street photography, architecture and urban landscape photography as well as portraiture. In the last 4 years he has focused on creating images from photography that uses color as the main element, influenced by Pop-Art. [Biography updated on: 20/3/2024]