Awards:
2021 - Nominee Open Theme on Fine Art Photography Awards - 8th FAPA
2020- Grand Prize Social Photography - Snoecks, Ghent BE
2020- Nominee Short doc award - West Side Mountains Doc Fest, Arta GR
2018 - 1st prize "The City Tells" WPP18- Zwolle NL
2011 - 1st prize of new Photographer Kythera Photographic encounters - Kythira GR
Andrea Shkreli (1980)
Photography was an expedient means of observing and recording in the hands of those who shifted geographically. Andrea had a twofold experience of the excitement and embarrassment of emigration: as a child from Albania, his first homeland, to Greece, and as an adult from his second home to Flanders where he lives and continues his photographic work.
Since Andrea settled in Belgium, he continued to take pictures non-stop with his camera, and in part constitute a way of becoming familiar with his natural and social reality.
Shkreli's photographs are creative but also deeply affected from a part of the long tradition of 20th century street and documentary photography that beset the metropolitan glow via the pictorial aspect of an increasingly complex world moving faster and faster.
In such a spirit, Andrea, as an creator try to unfolds his small discoveries, coincidences and notional graps, the points where the social seams stretch or are ripped, at the same time exploring the pace and liveliness that color often provides.
In this way, having the medium of photography as his passport, he continues to discover worlds and new dialogues between form and color, subjectivity and objectivity.
His compositions often thoughtful, powerful but not cute.
Bruges BE 2023
Exhibitions
2023. Room 8 - Ghent. (BE)
2022 Staging the real - Agrinio (GR)
2022 Blank Wall Gallery - Athens (GR)
2020 3rd West Side Mountains (international doc fest)
2020. "SF" Great Prize for Social Photography - Gent (BE)
2020 3rd Chania International Photo Festival
2019 The color of Silence in Ichegem (BE)
2019 ESP+ gallery - Thessaloniki (GR)
2019 Landgoed de Campagne - Gent (BE)
2019 ZigZag Gallery - Ostend, (Be)
2018 5th Bienniale of Fine Art & Documentary Photography in Barcelona (SP)
2018 The color of Silence Academy of Arts - Cultural service of the city Brugge (BE)
2018 "The City Tells" and WorldPressPhoto 2018 - (Zwolle NL)
2018 "Bonjour West - Vlaanderen" Academy of Arts Brugge - Brugge (BE)
2018 Aspects of Balkan Photography: For a common narrative - Thessaloniki (GR)
2017 "300 years of Art Academy of Arts Bruges" exhibition - Bruges (BE)
2017 Exposure Value gallery - Ostende (BE)
2017 New Gaanderijen, (for municipality's cultural) - Ostende (BE)
2016 Folklore Museum - Bruges (BE)
2016 International festival of Photography - Tirana (AL)
2016 Ter Muiden - Oedelem (BE)
2016 Howest, Best Off Art Academy - Brugge (BE)
2015 Academy of Art AnnZee -Ostende (BE)
2014 On Discriminations - Institution of Human Rights - London (UK)
2013 Aspect of Balcan Photography - Thessaloniki (GR)
2012 Esp+ gallery - Thessaloniki (GR)
2012 Ariadne Photography Gallery - Athens (GR)
2011 Kythera Photographic encounters - Kythira (GR)
2011 Esp+ gallery - Thessaloniki (GR)
2010 Tettix Art Gallery - Thessaloniki (GR)
2009 Tettix Art Gallery - Thessaloniki (GR)