Yannis Zindrilis was born in Ioannina in 1982. He is a graduate of the Department of Topography, the Department of Photography, and Audiovisual Arts of the University of Western Attica. He completed his postgraduate studies in the program "Photography: Research and Methodology" at the University of Western Attica. He has attended seminars on "Topics and Theory of Visual Arts and Photography" and "Regarding Landscape: Images, Emotions, Politics" at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
He participated with the series "Vague Landscapes" at the Athens Photo Festival in 2016, as part of the exhibition "Young Greek Photographers." His photographic work "Greek Homeless National Team" was exhibited at the Helsinki Photo Festival in 2023 and was recognized as one of the ten most popular. In the same year, his latest personal project "A Long Saturday" was presented at the Photobiennale Thessaloniki.
Photographs from the series "A Long Saturday" are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Photography in Thessaloniki. He has collaborated with newspapers and magazines. Since May 2020, he has been teaching photography classes at the Hellenic Anticancer Society. He lives and works in Athens as a freelance photographer.
