Photography of Greek pioneer photographer Nelly’s. Her work from the beginning of last century shows the continuity of the Greek people along the centuries.

Elli Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari (Greek: Έλλη Σουγιουλτζόγλου-Σεραϊδάρη; 3 November 1899 – 8 August 1998), better known as Nelly's, was a Greek female photographer whose pictures of ancient Greek temples set against sea and sky backgrounds helped shaped the visual image of Greece in the Western mind.

Nelly was born in Aidini, near Smyrna, in Asia Minor. She went to study photography in Germany under Hugo Erfurth and Franz Fiedler, in 1920-1921, before the 1922 expulsion of the ethnic Greeks of Asia Minor by the Turks following the failed Greek invasion of Asia Minor. In 1924, she came to Greece.

Her style coincided with the Greek state’s need to produce an ideal view of the country and its people, for internal as well as external purposes. In this respect, Nelly can be seen as the first Greek “national” advertiser, especially after her appointment as official photographer of the newly established Under-Secretariat of Press and Tourism led by the Theodoros Nikoloudis.

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