ABOUT

As a legal professional and a member of committees focused on energy, the environment, and sustainable development, I founded the non-profit organization, Green Project. Through this initiative, I carried out numerous extensive expeditions across the globe, leveraging the power of photography as a means to inspire positive change.

Whether retracing the ancient Silk Roads or following the paths of hydroelectric energy, I try to document sustainable practices and routes that underscore the planet’s biodiversity.
These journeys serve as the foundation for a compelling photographic narrative, capturing moments through the refined and discerning lens of the artist.

BIO

Dr Yannis N. Tzortzis, RPS was born in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece. He studied photography, culture management and law in Greece, England, and Belgium. He is a Member of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain (RPS) and the Photographic Circle, Greece, specialised in environmental photography. He is the Co-founder and President of the non-profit organisation GREEN PROJECT whose environmental photo journeys around the world are being held under the auspices of the Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO.

He has been photographing and producing documentary films in the context of the GREEN PROJECT journeys in Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, Australia, Ionian Sea, Madagascar, West Africa, Greenland and India. He has won many prestigious international photography and film awards, published various photo monographs and exhibited his work in Greece, England, France, Austria, China, Colombia, Uruguay, Australia, etc. He is an Attorney at Law at the Supreme Court, specialised in Environmental and Energy Law, with PhD in Law of the University of London, LLM of the London School of Economics and Political Science, DEA of the University of Brussels, MA in Culture Management of Panteion University, and BA of the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

He has been elected a Member of the Board of Directors of the Regulatory Authority for Energy, Waste and Water and the Lilian Boudouri Foundation. He is the President of the Legal Experts Committee of the Just Transition Development Plan (JTDP). He is a Member of the “Council of Energy and Tax Reform” of the Elliniki Etairia, Society for the Environment and Cultural Heritage.