Dimitrios Asithianakis CV
Education
2023-2024 MBA Master in Business Adminstration in Digital Marketing – Aegean / St Mary’s University London
2020-2021 MA. Master of Arts in Photography & Visual Language – AKTO / Middlesex University London
1990-1993 BA. Photography – Focus School of Art Photography, Video and New Technologies
Training courses and seminars
2023 – e-commerce Expert – KEK Apopsis /TUV
2022 – Digital Marketing Expert – Google
2021 – Film, Images & Historical Interpretation in the 20th Century: The Camera Never Lies (coursera)
2020 – Seeing Through Photographs – MOMA (coursera)
2020 – Visual Perception and Visual Illusions (coursera)
2010 – Online Seminar Blog and Article Writing – (IWA)
2008 – Online Seminar Search Engines Marketing (SEM) – (IWA)
2007 – Online Seminar Search Engines Optimization (SEO) – (IWA)
2005 – Online Seminar Online Marketing – (IWA)
1996 – Subsidized Seminar Studio Photography Lighting – Athens Chamber of Commerce
1994-1995 2 semesters Conservation of works of art – Public IEK Chaidari
1988-1990 Photography Courses NELE Municipality of Petroupoli
Languages
English – ESB (English Speaking Board) B2 2010
Greek – Native tongue
Work experience
2001- Today Freelance – Webmaster – Online Marketing
1993- Today – Freelance – Photographer
1992 – Employee in a neighborhood photo studio – Chaidari
1990 – 1991 Salesman in a Photographic store Minas Geramas and Co. Ltd. – Athens
1988 -1990 Freelance – Photographer
Computer skills
I comfortably handle most of the Adobe software for photo editing and web design (Photoshop, Camera Raw, Lightroom, Dreamweaver), the entire Microsoft Office suite, similar open source software (GIMP, OPEN OFFICE) and WordPress CMS and Publishing Platform.
Publications
I have published articles about photography in the print magazines Up and Photographic Eidolo and I have published over 4000 articles on photography from 2001 until today on the websites www.fotoart.gr and photographyinfo.gr.
My photos and texts are on over 100 websites, blogs, online travel guides and websites for art and the internet.
I have written notes about the darkroom lessons and the 19th century Photographic techniques that I taught at Focus and I have written 7 books that I give to my students and to the members and friends of fotoart.
Book titles:
- The History of the Camera
- The digital camera
- Photographic lenses and filters
- 30 Great Photographers
- Introduction to Digital Photography
- Anthology of poems and songs in greek language for Photography
- Photograms
- Photographic Stereotypes
- Anthology of greek songs about Photography
- The photographers said
Teaching Photography experience
2017-Today – Organize and teach Fotoart courses (Association for the promotion of Artistic Photography)
2005 – 2017 – I taught my own online and offline photography seminars and private photography courses
1997-2005 – Focus School of Art Photography, Video and New Technologies
Personal photographic work – Activities
I have a personal photo archive that includes over 300,000 negatives, slides and digital photo files. This is constantly evolving and growing from the first moment I came in contact with photography. My personal photo archive includes works from the most of photography fields, such as Street Photography, Travel Photography, Scientific Photography, Nude photography, Conceptual Photography, and Abstract Photography.
Due to my extensive writing in photo magazines and websites they have contacted me for advice, photography students for their dissertations, Academic teachers to advise them for their upcoming books and artists from various fields to help with various artistic projects.
From 2017 until today I am Founding member end the president of Fotoart. An association that aims to promote art photography and the promotion of Greece as a photographic travel destination.
2014-2016 Founding member of Travel Bloggers Greece that aimed to promote Greece as a travel destination
1988-1989 Founding member of “Fotografiki Parea” Photography Club