Manolis Papadakis EFIAP
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Manolis Papadakis was born in Myrtia (Barbaroi) of Heraklion but permanently stays in Heraklion. He is married and he has a son and a daughter. Additionally, he is a teacher of mathematics in Heraklion.
Education
He graduated from the university in 1978 and he has been in secondary education in Lysee since
He has participated in environment releated seminars from 1991 till 2000 (a total number of 40 hours ).
He has finally participated in seminars of occupational counseling.
Foreign language
He has got the national certificate in English language expertise.
Informatics
He has got the national certificate in computing.
Teaching experience
28 years as a teacher of mathematics.
22 years in the Hellenic Photographic Society of Crete, organizing seminars regarding the skills and the art of photography.
4 months in the labour Institute, teaching skills and photographic art.
2 nine-hours seminars for primary school teaching, from which the first took place in 1999 and the second in 2006.
1 of 10 hours seminar for secondary school teachers in 2000.
Participation in the Cretan meeting for the environment with a speech related to the art and environment and demonstration of a photographic projection.
A seminar of art photography for the members of the architects’ society of Heraklion municipality.
Α speech in a 90 hours seminar at Commenius 2.1 Programme, related to the production and presentation of photographic material.
Since 2-3-2007, he has been added in the teaching staff register of EKDDA (National Center of Public Management and free Management )
Editing work
In 2004 he published the book-album “The
Photographic activity
In 1981 he became a member of the Hellenic Photographic Society of Crete, and in 1987 he was elected into the Administrative Committee of the H.P.S. of
For many years he has offered his knowledge and experience of the art photography, teaching new photographers at the H.P.S, at seminars for secondary school teachers, as well as at other seminars.
He is interested in a wide range of subjects and kinds of art photography, but especially in human related topics , in photographing nature and compositions involving colour.
Within the activities he takes part in, is the organizing of students’ groups of photography and video in the secondary school, involving seminars and presentations of photographic projects, multimedia and videos which have as topics the art and the skills of photography.
During the last eight years he uses and teaches at the same time, the use of new technologies in photographic production (picture manipulation and use) in photography and in CD multimedia making.
These years he has made various CDs multimedia and two from those are the CDs related to the students’ exchange between Heraklion-Luxembourg and Heraklion-Cyprus.
Distinctions
His work has been published in many journals and magazines in
His photographs have been published in international collections of art photography, photographic magazines, in albums, calendars etc. There are photographs of his, on display at the
He has participated in local, national and international exhibitions and competitions, where his photographs have won a total of 109 medals and awards.
He has been especially recognized in
During the course of participating in international exhibitions - galleries and Biennal Photographs, all over the world from 1996 onwards, he has received 778 international awards, 43 international medals and special mentions, ( 7 gold, 3 silver,
In 1997 he was honoured by the Photographic Society of America (P.S.A.) and in 1999 he won the 2nd Star.
In 1998 he was awarded the title A.FIAP and in December 2002 the title E.FIAP (Excellent Artist of the International Photographic Society) from the F.I.A.P. (Federation Internationale de l’Art Photographique).
Exhibitions
His first exhibition was in Myrtia, the second one was in Iraklio and there was one man show in
«Cercle municipal » of Luxembourg city in April 2004 with the topic “ Landscapes and compositions in Greek color and light ” and an individual also exhibition in Iraklion on October 2005, with the topic” Luxembourg ”, inaugurated by the former president of European Union, Mr Jacque Sander.
There were group exhibitions art photography all over
Along with photography he is involved in creative video.
In 1998 he entered the Thessaloniki Festival of Creative Cinematography and Video Films, with his video film ‘KYKLOS’ and during the last years he works a lot on making and processing digital videos. During the last years also he has made various multimedia CDs , including CDs related to the students’ exchanging between Iraklion-Luxembourg and
He has also presented sound-accompanied shows of slides, the most important being the presentation at Cadenet in
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e-mail: info@papadakismanolis.gr
