Yannis Behrakis—Born in Athens, Greece, where he studied photography at the Athens School of Arts and Technology and received his BA in arts by the Middlesex University. Photojournalist for Reuters since 1988 , covered a variety of events including the funeral of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran, the changes in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, the civil conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, the wars in Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Afghanistan, Lebanon and the first and second Gulf wars. He has also covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for many years and earthquakes in Kashmir, Turkey, Greece and Iran. Also covered four Summer Olympics, the World Cup in the US and many international sports events.
Among several awards, has been named seven times News Photographer of the Year by the Greek National Fuji Awards and three times European photojournalist of the year by Fuji in London 1999, Barcelona 2002 and Rome 2004. In 2000 he received the John Faber award from the Overseas Press Club of America in New York. In 2000 he received the most prestigious Greek journalistic prize, the Botsis Foundation Award.
In 2000, first prize in the General News Stories category, by the World Press Photo Foundation. In the 2002 Bayeux Awards for war correspondents, he won the second prize in the photography category for his pictures of the liberation of Kabul, as well the Prix de Public (the public’s choice)
