Stylianos Papardelas

Stylianos Papardelas was born in Larisa and grew up in Heraklion Crete. He started taking photographs in 2006 when he bought his first dslr camera and started taking lessons at the hellenic photographic society of Crete. Soon he realized, if he wanted to become better, he would have to listen and learn from a variety of people about photography. In February of 2007 he joined the photographic society of university of Crete (F.O.P.K). He likes to think that photography is his excuse to travel around the world.

In Ireland he works for the not-for-profit organization Barretstown as a photographer, but also as a moderator in life enhancing projects for seriously ill children. Co-founder of the digital media project The World of Ronah, Stylianos creates short documentary films and podcasts on travelling and street photography.

Stylianos was working around Asia photographing for IRIN news, the award-winning humanitarian news service of the United Nations.

Currently he is back in Europe working for numerous media such as Eleytherotypia, Press project, Huffington post, organizing his first personal exhibition and planning his next trips.

“I prefer to walk free on a dirty street than enslaved in clean societies”