“Eyewitness”, Yannis Behrakis at SNFCC

Athens Photo World

-“Eyewitness” exhibition

Thirty years of photojournalism, distinctions and awards, thirty years during which Yannis Behrakis was present at the events that now are considered contemporary history in the making. Visitors will have the opportunity to see a collection of seventy of the strongest and most influential photographs, from the beginning of his career until the migrant crisis of 2015, which gave him and his team the Pulitzer prize. The exhibition will be hosted in the Patio of the 4th floor of the National Library of Greece at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. At the same time, there will be screenings of Yannis Behrakis’s speeches and interviews during his long lasting photographic career with his most important reflections about photography and about the world.

The exhibition will run from 7th June to 31th August!

 

Pristina, Kosovo, 1998 ©Yannis Behrakis/Reuters An ethnic Albanian villager looks through a bullet hole in a bus window in the village of Lapusnik 20 km south-west of Kosovo's capital Pristina, May 11, 1998.A Syrian refugee kisses his daughter as he walks through a rainstorm towards Greece's border with FYRO-Macedonia, near the Greek village of Idomeni, September 10, 2015. Thousands of refugees and migrants, including many families with young children, have been left soaked after spending the night sleeping in the open in torrential rain on the Greek- FYRO Macedonian border. REUTERS/Yannis BehrakisAfghanistan, 2001 ©Yannis Behrakis/Reuters An Afghan man walks over a footbridge at sunset in the northern Afghanistan town of Khoja Bahawuddin October 24, 2001.Afghanistan November 2001 during US bombing of Taliban positions.An Iraqi Shiite man carries a flag stained with the blood of men who wounded themselves to demonstrate their love to the Imam, as he walks along with tens of thousands of religious Iraqi's on their way to the central city of Kerbala through a sand storm April 19, 2003. Thousands of Iraqi Shi'ite Muslims beat their chests with their hands and waved black and green flags in a passionate celebration of a religious pilgrimage banned for a quarter century under Saddam Hussein. Men in robes and women draped in flowing black chadors streamed along narrow lanes and through palm tree orchards from towns and villages in southern Iraq to Najaf, from where they will go on to the city of Kerbala to mark one of the holiest events in the Shi'ite calendar, on April 23. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis/File photoIraq, 2003 ©Yannis Behrakis/Reuters Iraqi Shiite women make their way to the southern-central city of Najaf April 18, 2003, as part of the Arbaiin pilgrimage, one of the holiest events on the Shiite calendar.