George Striftaris (Greece)
Actor, casting director and photographer
George Striftaris is a Greek artist. He lives in Athens and works as an actor, casting director and photographer.
His photographic activity started with street photography, landscapes and portraits and the latest years with male nudes that are sometimes incorporated in a natural environment, sometimes in an urban setting and at other times appear to inhabit an unexplored interim of invented space. His men appear to despise time and it’s constraints. Above all, they are there to be looked at.
He has also created images for magazine covers, theatrical text publications, posters and promotional material for theatrical shows – in some of which he has also participated as an actor – and posters for short films.
He has participated to several solo and group exhibitions in Greece and other European countries. One of the milestones in his career was the release of his first photo album entitled PHOSPHORUS. Interviews and presentations of his work are available in Internet and print media,
in Greece, Europe, America and Australia. Some of his creations are in private collections in Greece and abroad. Last four years he is taking pictures of men regardless of age, body type, nationality and sexuality in order to reveal a new place, inviolable. The ASYLUM project. It is a work that hopefully will be completed in 2021.
Recently, he created photo-zine PLASTIC and just published the first issue (www.plasticzine.com)
