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. 

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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