Kirill Samarits

Kirill Samarits (Born 19 February 1994) is a Russian & Greek photographer. He began his career at the age of eighteen as an event photographer. He is Multilingualism and speaks Greek, Russian, and English.
Kirill became particularly popular in Greece after the interview on Greek Television about his photograph ( Random Articles : )taken in Elafonissos, Greece in August of 2019. He captured a couple who was wrapped together during a conflagration at the island. This photograph split the audience in half creating conflict between those who supported the art and those who hated the fact of a couple just staying inactive in front of such a major disaster.
==Early Life==
Kirill Samarits was born on 19 February 1994, in Stavropol Krai, Russia. Parents Liudmila Aspidov and Sergkei Samarits. He has an older sister, Oxana. His family lived in Russia until 1998 when they immigrate to Greece on 7 June 1998. He learn to speak Greek by watching TV shows at the age of 7 when his parents were obligated to work and he had to stay home alone for many hours. 
From the age of 12 until the age of 18 he was a part of AC Diomidis Argous as a handball player. At the age 18 he decides to end his sport career and join the army. He joined to Special Forces of the Greek Army for 9 months at the island of Lesbos, and the HMAK ( Η' μοίρα αμφίβιων καταδρομών).
== Studies ==
He studied at the University of Peloponnese Department of Digital Systems as well as during that period of time ( 2013-2020 ) he successfully achieved the Certification of Profesional Wedding & Portrait photographer by New York Institute of Photography.
The past decade (2011-2021) he manage to complete photography seminars and workshops around the world.
 Seminars & Workshops
Year	Location 	Title
2016	New York, NY 	NYIP
2017	Las Vegas, Nevada	WPPI
2018	New York, NY 	NYIC New York
2019	New York, NY 	WPPI
2019	Athens, Greece 	Kosmas Koumianos Portrait Lighting
2019	Maimi, Fl 	Portrait & Lighitng
2020	Athens, Greece 	Social Media Marketing
2021	Athens, Greece 	Social Media Marketing VELLUM
== Photography ==
His professional photography career started ad the age of 19. He was working as a Club photographer for about 3 years. During that period of time, he had his first elopement session in Argos, Argolida. After, that his career as a wedding photographer goes on until the present. 
During the years from 2017 until the present, he has covered more than 180 weddings around the world, locations like New York, Miami, Orlando, Las Vegas, Santorini, Mykonos, Athens, Nafplio, Monemvasia, Iceland. During those business trips he had been published his work from Nafplio by the Athens Voice|Athens Voice Magazine.
Also, at 2022 he covered the wedding of https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Μάριος_Καπότσης & https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Κόνι Μεταξά and the Shaina's Hurley with Christos Lardakis which are presented at Netflix's TV series Love is Blind Love|Is Blind (TV series)|Love Is Blind
== Entrepreneurship ==
His photography career includes business acts in fields like filmmaking, commercial video production, studio photography, and product photography. 25th January of 2020 he launched a new brand of social media management and content creation for businesses and celebrities of Greece. A successful Startup company|start-up seems to provide high-quality content and marketing. The brand name is Teramok
As an artist & content creatiot he is also creating NFTs and get his work published at Foundation.app NFT Market Place
as well as got mentioned at the community of Rarible NFT as the owner of the Bored Ape #07 artwork.
== Awards and nominations ==
Kirill Samarits is a multi-awarded photographer and content creator. A list of awards from a worldwide scale.
 Awards & Nominations
Year	Title 	Subject
2016	Nikon European Photo Contest	Cindoreela in a Modern World
2017	Best of Greece 	Wedding & Portait
2018	WPPI 	Portraits
2019	MyWed 	Best of the Year Wedding
2019	Best of Greece 	1st Place Wedding
2019	AKMH 	1st Place Photography Contest
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