Alkis Kanellopoulos was born and bred in Athens. He studied electronics (telecommunication systems) but photography progressively started to take a great part of his life. A self-taught photographer for 15 years time,in 2008 he started taking part in seminars at www.faos.gr under the guidance of Giannis Galanis. Nowadays he is also taking photography lessons under the consulting view of Vassilis Gerontakos. He took part in a lot of group exhibitions(for faos,V .Gerontakos lessons or other,for example festival exhibitions etc) and some personal exhibitions as well. He also made some "shooting" for theatrical plays(etc) and finally from september of 2013 to May of 2016 he tried to "plant the seed" for the basic steps of art photography in Athens(reg.plato's academy,kolonos)under the "plato's academy network". In present time he is a member of "443 photographica" photography group.