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Manolis Tsantakis lives and works at Palaikastro, Sitia, Crete Greece. His enthralled tentatives in the art of photography began in the early 1980s as a hobby and a passion that remains as unquenched, unbridled and creative as ever. He studied his art at AKTO educational group of art, the only school of photography at the time, and then attended courses and seminars on applied and creative photography in London, as well as on all existing printing techniques for colour and B/W photography. He has worked as professional photographer in various studios of advertising photography in Athens, collaborated with the Greek National Tourism Organization for the creation of photographic material aimed at the tourist promotion of Greece, as well as with many businesses and hotels all around the country for promotional purposes. From time to time, he offers tutorials and holds seminars about art photography to various photography groups and sits as judge in national and international photography contests. For his work in photography, he has been honoured several times with international awards and distinctions by the International Federation of Art Photography (FIAP) and the Greek Photography Association (ΕΦΕ). He has also represented Greece in international fora and photography festivals. He has held several exhibitions in Greece and various European countries, China and the USA, and his work has been published in numerous international publications and photographic albums. His rich publishing activity includes the following artistic books: Woman’s Light Published in 2004 and 2014 . A photographic album that includes b/w photographs portraying the solitude and lyricism of the naked body against the authentic canvas of nature, complemented by the poetry of Odysseas Elytis and Stavros Stavropoulos. Sitia, Dreamland Published in 2008, it is an ode to the natural landscape, picturesque villages and unaffected people of this beautiful land. Anadyomenes Aphrodites Published in 2015. It features b/w and colour photographs complemented by exquisite poetry by distinguished Greek and foreign poets and is themed around the female ethereal presence flirting with nymphs, fairies and Poseidon. Λόγος Απέριττος (Minimal voice) Published in 2016, it is a poetry-and-photography collection in collaboration with the poet Manolis Lykakis. The Centuries-Old OliveTrees of Crete Published in 2017 (bilingual edition Greek-English.