Greek born Yiorgos Kordakis currently lives in Athens with his family. Kordakis is best known for perfecting a large format Polaroid photography method with Inkjet technology and fine art archival paper. His signature Global Summer series has captured viewers across the US and Europe who are fascinated with his images of blurred figures and structures creating complex abstract patterns.

Kordakis is a multidisciplinary creative whose career easily breezes between commercial assignments that require a strong artistic mind frame and his personal art projects that draw from a restlessness that continuously cultivates his craft. Kordakis’ prolific practice spans from art, photography, video and artistic direction to storytelling and publishing. Overall, his observational method is identical to that of an art curator. Kordakis builds aesthetic worlds while telling their tale at the same time as standing on the viewpoint of both the maker and the observer.

Education

Certificate, Car Design Scuola D’Arte Applicata, Turin, Italy

BA, Media Management, Thames Valley University, London, England.

Exhibitions

2015
Pulse Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL 

2014
“10.000 American Movies” Karsten Greve Gallery, Paris, France (Solo)
“10.000 American Movies” AD Gallery, Athens, Greece (Solo)
“Accrochage” Karsten Greve Gallery, Paris, France

2013
“Greek Seas: A photographic journey in time”, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece

2012
Oriented and Disoriented in the Middle East (Part A)/ Photographic missions by the Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki

2010
Karsten Greve Gallery (Solo), Cologne, Germany
Art in the time of Collapse (Group), AD Gallery
Time Within Us, Thessa/niki Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece
Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey

2009
Art Basel Miami, Miami, USA
FIAC, Paris, France
ARCO, Madrid, Spain

2008
M+B Gallery (Solo), Los Angeles, USA
Karsten Greve Gallery (Solo), Paris, France
FIAC, Paris, France
Art Basel Miami, Miami, USA
20th International Photography Meeting, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

2007
Gallery 27 (Solo), London, England
Thanassis Frissiras Gallery (Group), Athens, Greece

2004
Hellenic Centre (Solo), London, England
Master Cup 2012 1st place Outstanding Achievement in the “Americana” Category
Honorable Mention in the “Americana” Category
Prix De La Photographie Paris: Fine Art Other – Gold (Dio X)
Prix De La Photographie Paris: Altered Images Special – Silver (Oriented and Disoriented in the Middle East – HIP4)
Prix De La Photographie Paris: Book (Series Only) – Bronze (10,000 American Movies)
Centre Project Launch 2nd place – Honorable Mention (10,000 American Movies)
IPA – Fine Art: Landscape Honorable Mention (10,000 American Movies)
IPA – Fine Art: Other:FA Honorable Mention (10,000 American Movies)
IPA – Deeper Perspective Honorable Mention (10,000 American Movies)

Awards

2012
Master Cup 2012 1st place Outstanding Achievement in the “Americana” Category
Honorable Mention in the “Americana” Category
Prix De La Photographie Paris: Fine Art Other – Gold (Dio X)
Prix De La Photographie Paris: Altered Images Special – Silver (Oriented and Disoriented in the Middle East – HIP4)
Prix De La Photographie Paris: Book (Series Only) – Bronze (10,000 American Movies)
Centre Project Launch 2nd place – Honorable Mention (10,000 American Movies)
IPA – Fine Art: Landscape Honorable Mention (10,000 American Movies)
IPA – Fine Art: Other:FA Honorable Mention (10,000 American Movies)
IPA – Deeper Perspective Honorable Mention (10,000 American Movies)

2008
Prix De La Photographie Paris Honorable Mention (Global Summer)

2007
ECB Annual Photography Award, Frankfurt, Germany (Hellenic Polaroids)

Publications

2006
Hellenic Polaroids (Imagenation)

2005
The New Face of Athens (Liberis Publications)

2003
Greek White (Imagenation)

2001
Moments in Greece (Imagenation)