Inspired Photography
Biography
Back in May 1971, in Geneva, Switzerland, Manos saw the light for the first time. With a Greek father and a Swiss mother he spent half of his life in Switzerland and half in Greece. It is around his 12 years of age that he started taking his first pictures with a Fuji compact camera for which the flash was as big as the camera. Late on around his 13 years of age, some relatives realized that he enjoyed photography so he was offered a Kodak Polaroid camera that he proudly was carrying everywhere and capturing images.
In 1986 he got the opportunity to join an American high school in Athens, and with 2 very good friends of his, Eric and Chris, they started taking courses of photography, discovering the dark room and black and white pictures. They spent 3 years until 1989 almost all the time in the school's studio and dark room or walking around the streets of Athens taking pictures. Although Manos wanted to study photography after graduation, he ended up in Switzerland studying Hotel Management instead.
Even though his career until 2010 did not have much to do with photography, Manos always found ways to keep his passion for photography alive, either being the yearbook photographer during his studies, either taking pictures of the employees children during the Christmas festivities.
In May 2005, Manos meets his wife, Fotini, who's name's origin in Greek means light, and indeed she is the one who lightened again Mano's dream to launch his photo business in his little beloved Greek island, Leros. She saw in him the passion for photography and offered him his first digital camera in December 2005, and that's where they started building together the dream which today became true.
