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Nikos Panayotopoulos & Penelope Petsini

Nikos Panayotopoulos was born in Exarchia in 1945. He studied photography in London (BA, Polytechnic of Central London) from 1974-77 and obtained a PhD in Arts and Humanities specialised in photography (PhD, University of Derby) in 2008. He is a founding member of the Photography Centre of Athens (1979-2004). As a consultant to the Ministry of Culture, he coordinated the formulation and reform of the institutional framework for photography in Greece for a decade (1994-2004). He was a member of the working committee that drafted the National Policy for Art Photography for the Ministry of Culture (1994-95), and an Independent Expert at the European Commission (since 1999). He has published a significant number of theoretical and critical texts, organized and curated photographic exhibitions, seminars, workshops and research projects, and has organized and/or participated in conferences and workshops. Since 1978, his photographic work has been exhibited and published extensively in Greece