Reuters Chief Photographer and award winning photojournalist Yannis Behrakis has donated some fantastic pictures to our initiative. From Wikipedia: Yannis started working for Reuters in 1988 and his first foreign assignment was to cover the Libya crisis on January 1989. Since then he has documented a variety of events including the funeral of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran, the changes in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, the wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Afghanistan, Lebanon, the first and second Gulf wars, the Arab Spring in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia. He has also covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for many years, earthquakes in Kashmir, Turkey, Greece and Iran and major news events around the world. He has also covered four Summer Olympics, the 1994 World Cup in the US and many international sports events. In 2008 he moved with Reuters in Jerusalem as the chief photographer for Israel and the Palestinian Territories, and in 2010 he moved back to Greece to cover the financial crisis. He has taken part in many group exhibitions in Athens, Thessaloniki, London, Edinburgh, New York, Rome, Barcelona, Madrid and Dubai while he has presented solo exhibitions as well. In 2000, Yannis Behrakis has survived an ambush in Sierra Leone where the American reporter Kurt Schork and Spanish cameraman Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora of Associated Press Television were killed. He and South African cameraman Mark Chisholm managed to get away from the attackers. Awards: News Photographer of the Year, by the European Fuji Awards (in 1998, 2002 and 2003) News Photographer of the year 7 times by the Greek Fuji Awards Overseas Press Club of America photography award (1999) 1st prize in the General News Stories category, by the World Press Photo Foundation for his work on Kosovo (2000) Botsis Foundation Award (2000) The Prix de Public, Bayeux Awards for war correspondents, for his pictures of the liberation of Kabul (2002) 2004, 2009 and 2013 awards in the China International Press Photo Contest. 2011 award of excellence in Best of Photojournalism (BOP) in General news stories. 2012 2nd place in General news category of Pictures of the Year international (POYi).
Posted on: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 02:30:04 +0000
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