WORLDIAS® a planet in images by Ioannis © Ioannis Lykouris Mfiap,HonEiap 2019
Ioannis   Lykouris   is   born   in Athens,   Greece.   He   studied   law   at   the   University   of Athens   and   accomplished   his   post-graduated   studies in   Civil   and   Commercial   Law   at   the   University   of   Paris   II   (Sorbonne),   France.   Today,   he   is   working   as   a   lawyer   in   Piraeus   and   he   is the Deputy Legal Counselor of the Hellenic Post SA. He   was   keen   on   photography   very   early.   At   the   age   of   12   years,   he   signed   up   as   member   of   the   Hellenic   Photographic   Society, thereby    becoming    its    ever    youngest    member.    Since    1993,    he    is    a    member    of    the   Administrative    Council    of    the    Hellenic Photographic   Society   and   since   1997   the   Greek   Liaison   Officer   in   the   International   Federation   of   Photographic   Art   (FIAP).   In   the year   2010   he   became   member   of   the   Directory   Board   of   FIAP   and   one   year   later   he   assumed   the   responsibilities   both   of   the Direction   of   the   FIAP   Biennial   Service   and   of   the   Vice   Presidency   of   the   Hellenic   Photographic   Society.   Since   2012,   he   is   elected   as Secretary General of FIAP. He    often    creates    diaporamas,    sometimes    accompanied    by    his    own    music    and    likes    landscape    photography,    portrait    and photojournalism.   The   last   years   he   is   working   mainly   on   nude   photography,   trying   to   give   his   models   graphic   shapes   that   go beyond body forms. He   has   traveled   around   the   world   and   taken   thousands   of   pictures   from   different   places,   especially   from   remote   and   difficult   to reach   areas,   like   Papua-New   Guinea,   Borneo,   Tasmania,   Iran,   Uzbekistan,   Kyrgyzstan,   Tibet,   Eritrea,   Namibia,   Libya,   Bolivia,   or the   Galapagos   Islands.   His   photographs   have   been   published   in   many   foreign   magazines   of   artistic   photography.   In   Greece,   his work soon became of great request and presented in most of the bigger magazines and newspapers. He   has   participated   with   success   in   many   Biennials   and   in   many   group   exhibitions   abroad.   He   has   also   organized   many   personal exhibitions   in   Greece   and   other   countries.   His   photographs   repeatedly   won   many   awards   in   Greek   and   international   competitions, among   them   many   gold   medals.   He   has   participated   many   times   as   a   jury   member   to   international   photographic   contests   in Greece and abroad. In   the   year   2002,   FIAP   honored   him   with   the   distinction   of AFIAP,   which   was   followed   by   the   distinction   EFIAP   in   2009   and   finally by   the   highest   distinction   MFIAP   in   2014,   for   his   artistic   inspiration   and   work.   In   the   meantime   (2007),   FIAP   granted   him   also   the distinction of ESFIAP followed by the HonEFIAP distinction (2012) as recognition to his contribution to FIAP and Photography. In   2011   he   was   honored   for   his   participation   and   involvement   in   photography   by   Sille   Sanat   Sarayi   in   Konya   (Turkey),   as   the   best photographer   of   the   world   for   that   year.   Different   photographic   Associations   or   Federations   conferred   him   as   a   mark   of   respect for   his   services   in   Photography   their   Honorary   Life   Membership   or   Fellowship,   among   them   the   Bangladesh   Photographic   Society (2013),   the   Foto   Club   Buenos   Aires   (2013),   the   Federation   Argentina   de   Fotografia   (2013)   the   Federation   of   Indian   Photography (2014), the PESGSPC (2015), the Photographic Association of Dum Dum (2017) and the ICS International (USA) (2018). In   2018   China   Jinan   International   Photography   Biennial   awarded   him   as   one   of   the   top   ten   international   photographers   from Europe, America and Asia. The same year he was appointed as Guest Professor at the University of Shandong in China.