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Τakis Tloupas
1920 - 2003
Takis Tloupas was born in Larissa.
Son of a woodcarver, he learns the art
by his father and continues to practice it until the
german occupation.
On the occasion of an excursion to Mount Olympus
with a mountaineering club, he comes for the first
time in contact with the art of photography.
His favorite subjects, the life in the Thessaly plain,
mountains of Pindus and mount Olympus.
After 1945 he decides to deal professionally with
photography and opens a photographic studio in Larissa.
For more than 50 consecutive years he captures
characteristic views of postwar and
contemporary Larisa and images from daily life,
manners and customs of the people of Thessaly area.
With his camera captures
moments of life, movements of nomadic
tribes (Vlachs, Sarakatsani) and local
farmers in traditional jobs.
He records professions that have lost in the fast
pace of industrialization of the modern world.
With his scooter travels all over Greece
photographing the most beautiful corners,
from Pineios river and Lake Karla, to
Skopelos and Crete.
His love for nature leads him to mount Olympus
where he captures the most inaccessible areas.
Takis Tloupas had many individual exhibitions
and with his works took part in many group
exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
There have been issued many photo albums,
literary and historical books with his
photographs.
Special value acquires the album titled
"The Greece of Takis Tloupas", which includes
representative photos from all sections that compose
his work.
Milestone in his career is the award in 1994, from by
the Ministry of Culture, where together with other
50 personalities of Literature and Arts, honored for his
contribution to cultural life.
In 2024, the Region of Thessaly established an
international photography competition, the "Tloupas Path",
honoring his photographic work and inspiring artists
from all over the world. A great honor for both Takis Tloupas
and his brother Filolaos was the renaming of the
4th Vocational High School of Larissa to "Filolaos & Takis Tloupas".
This valuable material of Takis Tloupas is
archived and is available to anyone interested in
photography Studio that has now Tloupas daughter
Vania, who as a photographer continues the
tradition in the art of photography.
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