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Peter
Fotis Kapnistos, from the Great Lakes region of Ohio, is a former editor,
publisher and photographer. As a press conference news editor in Athens,
Greece, he interviewed or photographed the following people:
Film-maker
Francis Ford Coppola, jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, drummer Ginger Baker
of Cream and Blind Faith, Grace Jones, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones,
Carlos Santana, Sting, Iggy Pop, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Ian Anderson
of Jethro Tull, Bonnie Tyler, songwriter Ian Dury, Steven Van Zandt of Bruce
Springsteen's E Street Band and Silvio of The Sopranos, actress and
politician Glenda Jackson, Harry Belafonte, Maximilian Schell, Professor
Stephen Hawking, erotic-star and politician Cicciolina, Osho or Bhagwan
Shree Rajneesh, Israeli psychic Uri Geller, actress and politician Melina
Mercouri, CIA whistle-blower John Kiriakou, Prime Minister of Greece Costas
Simitis, and others.
NOTE: Persons depicted or referred to in the biographic press conference data are not affiliated with the author.
About the author:
Peter
Fotis Kapnistos (b. 1951 in Athens) is a Greek American journalist, editor,
publisher, photographer and web author residing in the Eastern
Mediterranean. Peter grew up in Warren, Ohio, and supported by Navy
commander Willis F Cottrell in 1977 received a recommendation from Vice
President Walter Mondale for the inclusion of references cited in NASA
patent documents. Peter's computer book-binding proposal for space flight
(dubbed "Life-Log") was later loosely adopted by DARPA to monitor
astronauts' health and safety activities but raised concerns about public
privacy and was finally considered outmoded and discontinued after Facebook redesigned most of
social media in 2004.
Peter
Fotis Kapnistos learned commercial studio photography from Giovanni
Maioletti, who managed front projection special effects for the 1968 Jane
Fonda film, Barbarella. After a vocation with George D. Maniatis (Vogue
France, 1972) in advertising art and fashion photography (Christa Talents,
Studio Mavrogenis, Models Center, Toth, Brown & Co., Grigoris Asteriadis,
Agencé, Image Talent (with Robert Harris, Paul Ellinas and Vion Sandor), Peter was assistant editor (1986-1988) for the "Athens News,"
Greece's English-language newspaper (Publisher, Yannis Horn, brother of
theatrical performer Dimitris Horn. Senior editor, Richard James, PhD).
Articles
by Peter Fotis Kapnistos were published by radio producer Aris Davarakis (Prosopa
Magazine, 1986). With Associated Press and Apple, Peter Fotis Kapnistos,
Angelika Timms and George Neris edited (George Kriklanis') "Greece Today,"
one of the first English-language desktop published newspapers in the Near
East. Peter translated for (Sakis Mavrelis') Times in Kolonaki, and Greek
Forum (with journalists Nikos Chatzinikolaou and Elena Katritsi). With the
help of the Parthenis design brand, Peter published the Summer Times (with
Sophia Alexander and George Zaphiropoulos, Mariella Loukaki, Penelope
Gunville, Sarah Yu, George Plakidas, Cathy Dumas, Heavy Metal fantasy magazine photographer Anthony Scibelli, Alan Graham, George Kokalis, 1990), and
with help from designers Yannis Tseklenis and Giannis Galatis who styled for
Jackie Kennedy Onassis, he co-published the Aegean Weekly (with
George Kouvakas and Dennis Dinopoulos, Vassillis Varnalis, Deanne Marsh,
Amira Khan, Theodoros Athanasopoulos, Devin Divine, Pamela Jenkins, Jennifer
Mitsoura, Caroline Creagh, 1992-93). Peter
Fotis Kapnistos helped introduce the Internet (icarian-sea.com myth-os.com)
in the east Aegean islands by setting up Internet cafes offering satellite
download services (with Peter Tsantes and Donald Gellert Smith 2000-05).
Peter Fotis Kapnistos worked under Spyridon Marinatos, the archaeologist who excavated Akrotiri on the isle of Thera (Santorini). With photojournalist Dimis Argyropoulos, Peter was the assistant of Spiros Tsavdaroglou, M.A., an administrative photographer for the National Archaeological Museum of Greece. They photographed Minoan and Mycenaean sites and artifacts (published by Ekdotike Athenon) for Professor Marinatos, who was one of the foremost archaeologists of the 20th century (he is mentioned in Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis). Peter also assisted the darkroom team that photographed the tomb of Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, discovered in the 1980s by the archaeologist Manolis Andronicus.
Extracts from Peter's BlackRaiser website are referred to in A.J. Hartley's "The Mask of Atreus" (2006), a New York Times best selling thriller that focuses on Greek myths, artifacts and Nazis. Peter wrote for The Black Vault, the largest privately run online repository of declassified UFO-related documents in the world, presented by John Greenewald, Jr. Peter's website was backlinked by Robin Falkov's Rumor Mill News in addition to the controversial websites of Alex Jones, David Icke, and Jeff Rense. Peter reported on BBC Radio airtime (giant "hand" found near site of Colossus of Rhodes, 1987) and was in a web radio interview with Vyzygoth on "Beyond the Grassy Knoll." A 2007 satire sketch by Peter Fotis Kapnistos was published on the “World News” (wn.com) website. A contributor to UFO Digest (by Dirk Vander Ploeg and Robert D Morningstar), Paul Dale Roberts interviewed Peter in 2009 for webmaster Don Allis (in association with Kevin Smith). Carolyn Rose Goyda ("Starfire Wolflair") introduced Peter Fotis Kapnistos on Art Bell's "Dark Matter" radio network.
The art collector Alexander Iolas (who discovered Andy Warhol) visited
one of Peter’s group photo gallery exhibits. Peter worked
with director Christopher Murray to film "Saint Theodora of Arcadia" (1985),
and he took documentary photos for parapsychologist George Bouloukos,
linked to the Edgar Cayce group. With music producer Tom Cacoliris, Pamela
Browne and George Georgison, Peter Fotis Kapnistos helped put on a jazz
concert by Dizzy Gillespie at the Athens Hilton (1980). Peter experimented
in 1992 with prototype stereoscopic videography featuring Ioanna Andrews (granddaughter
of poet E. E. Cummings).
Peter Fotis Kapnistos was photographer for (Dimitris Chasekidis, Stella
Ioanidou, Nicholas Pavlides) Image Design Centre Wax Museum in Athens to
welcome Uri Geller (2009). Peter gave computer assistance to Ralph H. Blum,
author of "The Book of Runes," and helped to digitally publish various works
by writer Alex Morton, a former member of the Borland staff. Articles by
Peter Fotis Kapnistos were backlinked in 2008 as recommended reading by (panspermia.org)
Cosmic Ancestry, published by The Astrobiology Research Trust (founded by
James Lovelock of Gaia theory) and overseen by Brig Klyce.
Peter Fotis Kapnistos attended the following places of study:
- Ohio University - Photography Workshops
- Pierce Deree - American College of Greece
- Doxiadis School of Graphic Design - Athens
- Kent State University - Trumbull Campus
What people said about Peter Fotis Kapnistos:
"Wow. Your book [Hitler's Doubles: Fully Illustrated] just overwhelmed me
and caught me by surprise as to what it got into. I wasn't expecting that."
(David Allen Rivera - author)
"Well done!" (Uri Geller)
"Instead of asking me questions you should be sitting under a tree." (Osho)
"I find to be an interesting take and raise fairly good questions to the subject." (forums - on History.com)
"As usual, Kapnistos puts a different spin on things." (The Anomalist)
"Strange… and interesting — very much so." (Rich Reynolds - RRRGroup)
"This is one of the most interesting things I have read for quite some time." (forums - on Disclose.tv)
"The heaviest
article in quite some time - heavy 5 min science read that will leave your
head