Yannis Behrakis, one of Reuters' most decorated and best-loved photographer...
LONDON - Yannis Behrakis, one of Reuters’ most decorated and best-loved photographers, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 58.After joining the news wire 30 years ago, Behrakis covered many of the most tumultuous events around the world, including conflicts in Afghanistan and Chechnya, a huge earthquake in Kashmir and the Egyptian uprising of 2011.
“You won’t see anyone so dedicated and so focused and who sacrificed everything to get the most important picture.” “His pictures are iconic, some works of art in their own right. But it was his empathy that made him a great photojournalist.” He came across a Time-Life photography book as a young man, which prompted him to enroll in a private photography course. His love affair with the trade had begun.It was a 1983 movie, “Under Fire”, about a group of reporters working in Nicaragua in the days leading to the 1979 revolution, that inspired him to take up journalism.
One photograph from the wars in former Yugoslavia, taken in 1998, shows an ethnic Albanian man lowering the body of a two-year-old boy who had been killed in the fighting into a tiny coffin. Schork, one of Behrakis’ closest friends, was hit and died instantly, and Moreno was also killed. Behrakis and Chisholm escaped.
“His memory helped me to ‘return’ to covering what I consider the apotheosis of photojournalism: war photography,” Behrakis wrote.In recent years, Behrakis spent more time in his native Greece, where he recorded the impact of the financial crisis on the country and the influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees entering Europe.
“When you get close to him and he opens up, he is a person you want to sit next to and talk to for hours. You will always get something from him.”
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