Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-04-19

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

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[01] Reuters' Behrakis on Pulitzer award won by three Greek photojournalists

[01] Reuters' Behrakis on Pulitzer award won by three Greek photojournalists

The Reuters team was led from Greece by Yannis Behrakis, chief photographer for Greece and Cyprus and the Guardian newspaper's 2015 Agency Photographer of the Year, working with colleagues Alkis Konstantinidis and Alexandros Avramidis. The Reuters photo staff was named as co-winner for breaking news photography, along with Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks and Daniel Etter of The New York Times.

"I think this is the first Pulitzer to come to Greece," Behrakis told ANA-MPA. "I am doubly glad because it is professional recognition of a high level, both for me and my team." Talking about the two other Greek photographers that shared the prize, he said they were "amazing, with a lot of talent, a lot of passion and really believe in what they are doing."

"It is very important what we did this year with these guys. With many personal sacrifices we achieved what we wanted, which was to become the voice of these people that come to this dot of land in the Aegean, seeing it as their last hope. The people on the islands welcomed them, showed them love and us journalists, who were there a very long time, finally became life vests for them. Their voice was heard through our photographs and our stories. In this way we showed what is happening in the world," he said.

The award-winning photojournalist said that the images of the refugee crisis captured by photojournalists had prompted many people from all around the world to come and help. "Many times people came up to me and said: 'I saw one of your photographs and thought I should come and help."

Behrakis is currently working with pianist Nikos Laaris on a musical-photo journey that will take place at the Athens Concert Hall next Monday to raise funds for Doctors Without Borders. Laaris will perform Haydn's "Seven Last Words of Christ" while photographs taken by Behrakis during missions to various parts of the world will be shown. Behrakis himself will speak about his personal experiences and refugee accounts recorded by Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

He noted that MSF can use the money raised to "alleviate pain and save lives".

"I know these people, I have worked with them; I know that some of them have died doing their work," he said.

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