Manolis Kassimatis

If you want please visit my site http://www.manolokasimatis.gr
and also these blogs: http://fotografizontasmagazine.blogspot.com/
http://prova-d-arte.blogspot.com/
http://eteriafotografizontas.blogspot.com/
http://odigosperifotografon.blogspot.com/
Manolis Kassimatis was born in Athens in 1958. He was taught photography by his inspiring long gone father who was a former recognized photo reporter working for the newspaper AUGI. From 1978 until 2002 Manolis Kassimatis was a member of the Greek Photographic Society (EFE); in 2000 member of FOIBOS and also member of the Union of Artists Photographers in Athens and finally in 2001-3 a member of the Photographic centre of Thessalonica.
He has studied Graphic Arts, offset printing, electronic typography and photography. He was also a member of the cinematographic team MIRROR and designer of its magazine. He is member of the cultural company of ANONYMOUS and a columnist of the magazine PHOTOGRAPHIC IDOL, the editor of his own photographic magazine PHOTOGRAPHING (FOTOGRAFIZONTAS) as well as the editor of EK TYPOIS, a magazine on typography and its history.
Manolis Kassimatis is also the founding member of the photo group ARS LONGA-VITA BREVIS and the experimental photographic team PROVA D'ARTE. His photo creation has been published in various magazines, FUN IN ACTION, ATHLETE, METRO etc and on the net, www.e-missos.gr, www.kumite.gr, www.fotoartmagazine.gr. He has had 5 individual photo exhibitions and participates in a lot of collective ones.
He also manages the photographic work of his father Stelios Kassimatis and is responsible for the documentation of photographic reports from the exile period of 1945-1974 and simultaneously studies the historical value and dynamics of photographic documentation of this hard period.
Manolis Kassimatis coordinates an effort heading towards the creation of a company dedicated to the perseverance of photographic files and known but also unknown photographers and deals with the electronic printing of photo albums such as FRIENDS, LOVERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY and LOMOMANIA initiating his own publications also under the name etherovamon.
He also deals with the organization of photo exhibitions such as the 1st Pan-Hellenic meeting of teams and clubs.
Nowadays he provides lessons of photography and photographic techniques and shoots athletic events, travelling themes, concerts, dancing and experimental subjects.
To contact; Manolis Kassimatis PAKSON 30 KIPSELI 11362, ATHENS, GREECELayout made by flavagurl25 at CreateBlog.com .
The magazine “FOTORAFIZONTAS” was initiated in 1999 by Manolis Kassimatis, in an effort to publish an independent magazine, which would differ from the existing ones and would be open to every kind of communication. For this reason its motto is “Built more communication bridges”
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