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Lefteris Pitarakis

Lefteris Pitarakis
Profession: photojournalist
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Born in Athens, Greece, where he studied photography, majoring in photojournalism. Worked as a freelance photographer in Greece until 1998 when started working in the Athens bureau of The Associated Press assigned to AP coverage in the greater Balkan region, with multiple assignments in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, and the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, during and after the NATO war. From April 2000 to April 2005 he covered extensively the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Travelled in the greater Middle East region for assignments to Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan and covered the aftermath of the US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Since April 2005 he is covering news, sports and features for the Associated Press in Europe, Middle East and Africa regions with most recent major assignment the summer 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon. That body of work from the conflict along with the rest of the AP photo team that covered it, made them finalists for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize.

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PHOTOJOURNALISM EXHIBITION IN ATHENS, GREECE

hello all, this is to let you know for the group photo exhibition “War-stricken regions of the Mediterranean” part of the Athens Photo Festival http://www.hcp.gr/en/festival.html that will take place in gallery “55”, Mavromihali 55, Athens, Greece. The opening is on Wednesday November 12, 2008 at 20.00 and the exhibition will last till Dec. 3, 2008. So if you are or travel through Athens you are welcome.
thank you
Lefteris Pitarakis

War-Striken Regions of the Mediterranean

Luisa Guliamaki (Greece/Poland, AFP)
Ron Haviv (USA, VII)
Yannis Kontos (Greece, Polaris)
Ziv Koren (Israel, Polaris)
Heidi Levine (USA, Sipa Press)
Yannis Behrakis (Greece, Reuters)
Nikos Pilos (Greece, Zuma)
Lefteris Pitarakis (Greece, AP)

Curator:
Penelope Petsini

The images selected in this exhibition, followed by unedited captions, are probably of the less “bloody” the particular photographers have taken. That is because, arguably, this selection
is determined by the idea that war is an extremely complex matter:
no war is simply “good” or “bad” and nobody involved is merely a
“persecutor” or a “victim”. Away from preoccupations and perversions which might determine even the most “objective” approach of the media, avoiding demonizations of the “bad” and idolization of the “good”, these photographs form a political look on the issue of war.
War involves more than death; it involves issues such as politics,
history or ethics. At the same time, inside or next to the destroyed buildings or the deserted landscapes, there are people mourning or celebrating, as well as people desperately struggling to survive. In this sense, these images comprehend moments, experiences and stories, which range from touching to horrific. They talk about destruction, loss, tragedy, pain, fear, mourning, survival, or uncertainty about the future. They ultimately talk about a heterogeneous world, a global space drawn by borders and
separated by walls, a world in which things happen at the same time, they overlap and they are easy to comprehend, for this world is neither small nor simple. As Homi Bhabha5 lively put it, the globe shrinks for those who own it, but “for the displaced or the dispossessed, the migrant or refugee, no distance is more awesome
than the few feet across borders or frontiers.”
Penelope Petsini
Athens, 2008

11 Nov 2008 23:11 | 1 replies

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