Awards:
2020- Grand Prize Social Photography - Snoecks, Ghent BE
2018 - 1st prize "The City Tells" WPP18- Zwolle NL
2011 - 1st prize "New Photographer" Kythera Photographic encounters - Kythira GR
2021 - Nominee Open Theme on Fine Art Photography Awards - 8th FAPA
2020- Nominee Short doc award - West Side Mountains Doc Fest, Arta GR
Andrea Shkreli is a photographer with a unique journey and a distinctive approach. Born in Tirana 1980, Albania, he experienced a twofold experience of the excitement and embarrassment of emigration: first as a child moving from Albania to Greece, where he grew up and studied in Thessaloniki. Later as an adult settled to Flanders, Belgium, where he currently lives and continues his photographic work.
Photography has been an expedient means for Andrea to observe and record his shifting geographic realities. His work expresses this complex experience, where geographical movement and personal challenges are reflected in his art. Shkreli’s photographs are creative, yet deeply influenced by the long tradition of 20th-century street and documentary photography, capturing the metropolitan glow and the pictorial aspects of an increasingly complex world. He uses light, contrast, and color to depict small but significant moments of the world around him, trying to discover the subtle fractures and the points where social seams stretch or break.
Andrea’s compositions are thoughtful and powerful, avoiding superficial charm while inviting viewers to see everyday moments from a different perspective. Through his camera, Andrea reveals small discoveries, coincidences, and moments that might otherwise go unnoticed, blending subjectivity with objectivity and exploring new dialogues between form and color.
Andrea’s work is not just about capturing his surroundings; it is about discovering worlds and connecting the past with the present while exploring his environment in relation to himself. His journey of migration, search, and redefinition is reflected in every piece, revealing moments that often pass by unnoticed.
His recognized and award-winning work invites us on a journey where photography is the medium and the destination is the understanding of the human condition and relationships.
As a creator, Andrea reminds us of the power of images that connect us on both a personal and global level.
Exhibitions
2024 UraCult - Cologne (DE)
2024 Nieuwe Gaanderije - Ostend (BE)
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)