Born in 1956 in Thessaloniki in northern Greece, Fokion Zissiadis first became involved in photography while studying architecture in Philadelphia. He returned from the United States to carry on the family tradition in tourism and was, from 1989 to 2016, one of the major shareholders in the renowned Sani Resort in Chalkidiki and vice-president of Sani S.A. From 2016 onwards, he has been fully committed to his passion for landscape photography and adventure traveling by visualising and organising solo photographic expeditions to remote destinations of great natural beauty. His photographic work covers a wide range of geological phenomena and diverse terrains: deserts, glaciers, savannahs, jungles, volcanoes, rivers, seas, mountain ranges and uplands. His photographic projects have taken him across the length and breadth of Europe, but also to Iceland, Greenland, Vietnam, Patagonia, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Morocco, Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Chile, China, Russia, the United States of America and the Bahamas. His first book, Iceland, was published in February 2016 by teNeues. His second, Vietnam, was published by Rizzoli Publishing House in September 2020 and became the recipient of the National Publication Award from the Department of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam in 2021. Greenland is Fokion's third published work. Morocco and South Africa are his current works in progress. His first solo photography exhibition took place in October 2019 at the Benaki Museum in Athens under the title Icebergs - From Genesis to Extinction.
