Dimitrios Asithianakis – Bio (short)
Dimitrios Asithianakis was born in Heidelberg, Germany, grew up and lives in Athens where he studied photography, video and new technologies. He has been teaching photography courses since 1997 in various art schools. From 2005 he started teaching his own seminars and offline and online photography lessons. Since 2017 he is the president of Fotoart, an association that aims to develop and promote art photography in Greece. In his personal photographic work he has dealt with the photographic techniques of the 19th century and every possible alternative photographic technique. His love of travel and travel photography led him to create dozens of online travel guides with his photos and text. His artistic interests include the photographic exploration of the urban landscape and urban ruins and thus emerged as a diploma thesis the project “Party Wall”, in the postgraduate program AKTO Art & Design / Middlesex University, “MA in Photography and Visual Language”.