1976, Spyros Meletzis, WW II Greek Resistance, First Edition, Me tous Antartes sta Vouna

Spyros Meletzis (1906 – 2003) was a Greek photographer. A milestone in his photographic career was his photograph of the boats on the beach of Alexandroupolis for which he won the first prize at the Thessaloniki exhibition in 1924. He learned photography from George Boukas – photographer of the royal family. In 1937 he photographs the Greek countryside in Epirus. During the Resistance of the 1940s, he followed and photographed the rebels in the Peloponnese and Evrytania. Meletzis is considered the photographer of the Resistance. In the book With the Partisans in the Mountains, photographs were presented of the rebels in the mountains of Evrytania in the period 1941-1944. Many of these photographs are used to this day as ideal representations of the struggle of the Left. In 1948 he photographed Samothrace and Alexandroupoli. Due to his leftist views and involvement in the resistance struggle, he faced problems finding work. After the war: he photographs archaeological sites, museums and in the 50’s politicians such as Konstantinos Karamanlis, Spyridon Markezinis, Georgios Rallis, Georgios Papandreou as well as Archbishop Makarios In 1953, Meletzis’ work was presented and received honors in Rochester, Birmingham and Buenos Aires. At the end of the 70s he directs a documentary about the National Resistance on behalf of the Swedish television.