Surpassing comfort zone | Stylianos Papardelas | TEDxHeraklion

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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Stylianos Papardelas grew up in Heraklion Crete, but wandered around the world and comes in TEDx Heraklion to talk about an enemy that he defies, fear.
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Biography:
Stylianos was born in Larisa and grew up in Crete. He started photography in 2006 when he joined the photographic society of the University of Crete. Since 2009, he has traveled to more than 40 countries around the globe, working at his personal project “In touch”. In 2014, he was awarded by the president of Greece for his work. In 2014, he started a new project called “Out of touch”.
In 2015, he founded the cultural and creative hub “Comeet Creative Space” in his home town in collaboration with six of his friends. Since then he has organized and hosted over 250 events, including music festivals, art and photography workshops, charity events, theater plays, conferences, photography exhibitions, and events to promote science.
In 2016 he produced a short documentary on the life of migrants called “Eternal Present” which debuted the Web documentary platform of the Greek National Television company.
His personal work has been published in David Gibson’s book “100 great street photographs” in 2017
His photographs have been published on several international and Greek media such as Al Jazeera, VICE, Huffington Post, NPR, Spiegel online, IRIN, Vice, National Geographic, The Press Project, Kathimerini, To Vima. Moreover, he worked with several travel magazines such as the award-winning Aegean Blue Magazine and Greece IS. He also collaborated with a number of international organizations and NGOs on numerous exhibitions and workshops around the world, including ICRC, United Nations and Barrestown.
He has presented several personal and group exhibitions around the world. Between them, his work has been exhibited in the head courters of the United Nations and the Greek Parliament.
In 2019 he self-publish his first book called “Duality” which he presented for the first time in the Museum of Natural History of Heraklion.
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Also Visit:
Website: www.stylianospapardelas.com
Instagram: / stylianospapardelas
Twitter: / spapardelas
Buy "Duality" book here:
www.stylianospapardelas.com/p...

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This is amazing! I'm so happy I met someone as brave, vibrant and intelligent as you! Very inspiring.. I always learn something from you! 😆😆