Remembering a legend (Yannis Behrakis)
Greek
photojournalist Yannis Behrakis in 2016. Behrakis died at 58 this weekend of
cancer. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Yannis Behrakis died
Saturday after a long battle with cancer. He was 58. Behrakis spent most of his
career with Reuters and his
most powerful images came during times of conflict.
“I’m there to record the best and the worst of humankind,”
Behrakis said in his Reuters biography. “This is my contribution to world
peace.”
Behrakis, born in Greece in 1960, led a team of Reuters’ photojournalists
who won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for covering the refugee crisis impacting
Europe.
via Greek Basil
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