honorable mention
Yiannis Rizomarkos greece
title
The Greek Jerusalem
He teaches photography since 2003, while he has founded and directs Orama Photography Studies. He has a degree in Photography and Audiovisual Arts from the Athens technological Institute and a piano degree from the National Conservatoire. In order to safely photograph in high altitudes and low depths, he has graduated from the middle level schools of the Greek Climbing Federation and is a certified Advanced Diver of the PADI National Federation.
He is a member of the Greek Photo Press Union and is based in Deep Down Studio in Athens.
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entry description
Patmos is a small Greek island located in north Aegean Sea and is known as ‘’the island of Apocalypse’’. The story says that John the Evangelist spoke with God who gave him the prophecy book. Now, the island is a religion centre who attracts orthodox pilgrims from everywhere specially at the Easter, because is celebrated with byzantine customs and rituals that are globally shared only by Patmos and Jerusalem. This series are from the Orthodox Easter in April of 2017.about the photographer
Yiannis works as a portrait, commercial and travel photographer, has collaborated with big publishers such as Conde Nast, DOL, Lymperis publications, Dafni and with high traffic magazines like Status, Vogue, Vimamen, Vimadonna, Cosmopolitan, Gaiorama etc. His travelling works have been published in books and magazines in Greece and abroad.He teaches photography since 2003, while he has founded and directs Orama Photography Studies. He has a degree in Photography and Audiovisual Arts from the Athens technological Institute and a piano degree from the National Conservatoire. In order to safely photograph in high altitudes and low depths, he has graduated from the middle level schools of the Greek Climbing Federation and is a certified Advanced Diver of the PADI National Federation.
He is a member of the Greek Photo Press Union and is based in Deep Down Studio in Athens.
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