Zisis Kardianos (Greece)

ZISIS KARDIANOS (Greece)

Zisis Kardianos, born in 1962 in Zakynthos, has been active as a street and documentary photographer since 1985, working independently as well as on self-assigned projects. He works in series many of which have been published in various national and international magazines. He has studied sociology and photography in the FOCUS school of Athens. In 2005 he commenced work on his long term photo-essay about his native island. The essay was self-published in a book in 2012 under the title “A Sense of Place”. His work has been presented in Greece and abroad in various solo and group exhibitions. Another of his long term and still on-going personal project titled “Off Season” was presented in the Athens Photo Festival in 2012. In 2016 he participated in the Brussels SPF where his series “In Limbo” was honored with the People’s Award. He is a founding member of the international photographers’ collective BURN MY EYE, an associate member of the BULB collective and a contributing photographer in Millennium Images photo agency.