After studying at the Secondary school of Art and Design in Brno, where he met his later wife Hilda Misura-Dias, he continued to the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), which he completed in 1964 after a short break.

As a child, he often stayed in Brankovice in south Moravia with his grandparents and relatives on his mother's side, who were involved in the anti-Nazi resistance during the Nazi occupation of the Czech Republic and imprisoned in a concentration camp.

The mother ran a confectionery in Kroměříž, but after the communist coup in 1948, she had to close the business and worked as a saleswoman in Zlín.

[3] In the years 1954–1958, Pavel Dias studied photography at the Secondary school of Art and Design in Brno under professor Karel Otta Hrubý.

In the years 1983–1988, he worked at the Secondary School of Arts and Crafts in Brno as the head of the photography department.

[12] Pavel Dias died on 19 April 2021, in Saint Cross Hospital at Žižkov in Prague.