Y annis Behrakis was one of Reuters’ most decorated and best-loved photographers. After joining the news wire 30 years ago, Behrakis, who died of cancer aged 58, 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.

Both his skills as a photographer and his bravery won him widespread respect. He also led a team to a Pulitzer Prize in 2016 for coverage of the refugee crisis. Colleagues who worked with him in the field said Reuters had lost a talented and committed journalist.

“It is about clearly telling the story in the most artistic way possible,” veteran Reuters photographer Goran Tomasevic said of Behrakis’s style. “You won’t see anyone so dedicated and so focused and who sacrificed everything to get the most important picture.”

That dedication was striking. His friend and colleague of 30 years, senior producer Vassilis Triandafyllou, described him as a “hurricane” who worked all hours of the day and night, sometimes at considerable personal risk, to get the image he wanted. When Behrakis wasn’t absorbed in work, he was warm, funny and larger than life. He could also be fiery.

“One of the best news photographers of his generation, Yannis was passionate, vital and intense both in his work and life,” said Reuters US general news editor Dina Kyriakidou Contini. “His pictures are iconic, some works of art in their own right. But it was his empathy that made him a great photojournalist.”

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He also led a team to a Pulitzer Prize in 2016 for coverage of the refugee crisis Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 1991 Frantic Kurdish refugees struggle for a loaf of bread during a humanitarian aid distribution at the Iraqi-Turkish border Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 1998 An ethnic Albanian boy from Kosovo carries a refugee child into Albanian soil to escape fighting in Serbia's turbulent Kosovo province. The refugees walked more than 30 hours from their western Kosovo villages in the Decane area Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Iran 1989 Iranian women pray at the site in Masala square where the body to Ayatollah Khomeini lies in state, in Tehran Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 2015 A Syrian refugee holds onto his children as he struggles to walk off a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Lesbos Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Turkey 2014 A young Kurdish refugee from Kobani holds a toy pistol at a Kurdish refugee camp in the border town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Kosovo 1998 An ethnic Albanian villager looks through a bullet hole in a bus window in the village of Lapusnik. The bus was destroyed during fierce fighting between Serbian forces and ethnic Albanian separatists Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 2015 A Syrian refugee kisses his daughter as he walks through a rainstorm towards Greece's border with Macedonia, near the Greek village of Idomeni Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 1991 An infant is fed glucose via a syringe in medical tent in Isikveren refugee camp Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Afghanistan 2001 Residents celebrate and escort Northern Alliance fighters entering the Afghan capital Kabul. Forces of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance entered Kabul as reports from across the country pointed to a collapse of Taliban rule. Civilians greeted opposition fighters and celebrated in the streets Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Iran 1997 A woman from an African Islamic country (in white) stands among Iranian women during the national anthem of Iran at the opening session of the 8th Islamic Conference Summit in Tehran's conference building Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 1999 Ethnic Albanian villagers form a line to pay their respects to the family of two victims of an outbreak of ethnic violence, in Kosovo Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 2008 An Israeli soldier walking through a field near Kibbutz Nahal Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Somalia 1992 A starving Somali child is given water near a refugee camp in Baidoa Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 1998 An ethnic Albanian man places the body of two-year-old Mozzlum Sylmetaj into a coffin next to the coffins of three other family members killed by Yugoslav army troops as they were crossing into Kosovo from Albania. The family had fled into Albania from violence in Kosovo but decided to return to their village after reports of a peace deal. The Yugoslav army said the family were with Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas and were killed in an exchange of fire with border troops Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Sierra Leone 2000 A pro-government Sierra Leonean fighter bites a bullet as he takes position in no man's land 2 km ahead of Rogberi junctio0n where evidence of executed UN troops were found after heavy fighting between government troops and RUF rebels north east of Freetown Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 2014 A Kurdish refugee boy from the Syrian town of Kobani holds onto a fence that surrounds a refugee camp in the border town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 2012 Hassan Mekki, a 32-year-old Sudanese migrant, shows scars on his back in Athens, Greece. Mekki, who fled conflict in his country in hope of a better life in Europe, said that on August 2012, about five months after he illegally entered Greece, he and a friend from Mauritania were walking in Athens when black-shirted men on motorcycles holding Greek flags came up and knocked him half-conscious with a blow to the head. When he regained consciousness, he was covered in blood. Only later would he realise that his attackers, which he says were likely tied to the far-right Golden Dawn party, had left large gashes resembling an "X" across his back. "I don't have the right papers, so I can't go anywhere to ask for help," Mekki said. "I can't sleep. I'm scared, maybe they will follow me and my life is in danger now." Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 1999 A Kosovar woman stands in front of more than 10,000 ethnic Albanian refugees and pleads for Macedonian policemen to let her walk into Macedonia from the buffer zone between Yugoslavia and Macedonia Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Iran 1989 A man is carried at the site in Masala square where the body to Ayatollah Khomeini lies in state, in Tehran Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Egypt 2011 An anti-government protester prays as his comrades stand behind barbed wire in front of army tanks alongside the Egyptian Museum on the front line near Tahrir Square in Cairo Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 2014 A Kurdish refugee child cries as he and others wait inside a fenced refugee camp to pay their last respects to a Kurdish fighter killed during the battle for Kobani against Islamic State, in the border town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 1995 A Chechen fighter moves into firing position next to the Presidential Palace in central Grozny during heavy fighting Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 1995 A young Serbian refugee from the Krajina region rests in a sports complex which housed about 2.000 people, Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 1993 Emaciated Muslim refugees, recently released from a Croat prison in Dretelj, wait for lunch in a grammar school in Jablanica, central Bosnia Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 1997 An Albanian man carries a child to a US Marine CH53 Super Stallion helicopter as it lands at Golame beach near the port of Durres Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Egypt 2011 An opposition demonstrator prays in front of army soldiers near Tahrir Square in Cairo Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Greece 2012 A group of riot policemen engulfed in flames after protesters threw petrol bombs in Athens' Syntagma square during a 24-hour labour strike. Greek police fired teargas at hooded youths hurling petrol bombs and stones after tens of thousands took to the streets in Greece's anti-austerity demonstration. The officers escaped with little to no injuries Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 1999 Ethnic Albanian Fluter Pllana, (18 at the time), cries in front of the burning house of her uncle after Serbian police and troops set fire to the house after encircling and shelling the village of Stitarica, northeast of the regional capital Pristina Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 2006 A Kashmiri earthquake survivor uses her sewing machine to sew up winter clothes, outside her shelter on the mountainous Buttlian area, northeast of the earthquake-devastated city of Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered Kashmir Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 1999 A full moon shines over the Parthenon on Athens' holy rock of the Acropolis Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 1992 Kurdish refugees flee close to the Iraqi-Turkish border Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Afghanistan 2001 An Afghan boy stands by a dead Taliban fighter killed on the highway near Kabul Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 1995 Chechen fighters run to take cover as they hear warplanes flying overhead during an artillery and rocket attack in the center of the Chechen capital Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 2011 Rebel fighters run for cover inside a building on the frontline in Tripoli street in central Misrata. Tripoli street was the scene of some of the heaviest fighting between rebels and Gaddafi forces Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 2015 A pensioner leans against the main door of a branch of the National Bank as he waits to receive part of his pension in Athens Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 1993 Bosnian children fill up bottles with water from a pond after a rainstorm in Sarajevo Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Albania Two Albanians watch a US marine CH53 Super Stallion helicopter take off from Golame beach near the port town of Durres. The marines stormed out of helicopters onto Golame Beach to rescue American, Turkish and Italian citizens from the chaos of Albania as many frantic Albanians attempted to jump onboard. The helicopters kicked up blizzards of stinging sand as they landed and marines used rifle butts to beat off Albanians trying to board the aircraft and escape their country Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 2015 Migrants and refugees beg Macedonian policemen to allow passage to cross the border from Greece into Macedonia during a rainstorm, near the Greek village of Idomeni Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 1995 A Chechen man sits by the ruins of his home which was destroyed by Russian bombs in a Grozny neighbourhood as a gas pipeline burns overhead Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Afghanistan 2001 Afghan villagers sit atop a hill to have a better view of Northern Alliance troop movements in the outskirts of Gulbahal, north of Kabul Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Sierra Leone 2000 A pro-government Civil Defence special forces fighter stands at a checkpoint and provides security to Jordanian UN troops arriving for the first time in the front line near the town of Masiaka Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Libya 2011 Civilians and rebels celebrate following Friday prayers in central Ajdabiyah. Some 2,000 people turned up for weekly Muslim prayers in Ajdabiyah's main square, including many residents who had fled after the uprising against Gaddafi began Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Greece 2004 Paula Radcliffe cries in a vehicle after retiring from the women's marathon at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Albania An Albanian boy begs a US Marine guarding a helicopter on the beach at Golame. The boy was one of hundreds of Albanian civilians who rushed to the helicopters in a vain bid to escape the country. The Sea Stallion choppers had been sent to evacuate US, Italian and Turkish nationals Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 2015 Amoun, 70, a blind Palestinian refugee who lived in the town of Aleppo in Syria, rests on a beach moments after arriving along with another forty on a dinghy in the Greek island of Kos, crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 2013 Protesters run in panic as riot police returned to Istanbul's Taksim square late afternoon. Turkish riot police fired volleys of teargas canisters into Istanbul's Taksim Square, centre of protests against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, driving thousands into narrow side streets, witnesses said Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 2013 Anda, a local boy, looks out from his hut's window at the burial ground of late former South African President Nelson Mandela ahead of his funeral in Qunu Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Greece 2015 Deserted grain silos are seen in front of the snowcapped Mount Olympus near the town of Larissa in Thessaly region. A 2,500 km trip from Athens to northeastern Greece and back via the Peloponnese region in the south shows the remnants of a once-flourishing Greek industry, which has suffered a 30 percent drop in production from its peak. Abandoned factories, previously making goods from timber to textiles and cooking oil, are often looted, adding to the scenes of desolation Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 2011 Doctors tend to a wounded Gaddafi soldier, captured earlier by rebel fighters, in Misrata hospital Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Ukraine 2014 An injured man struggles to breathe as he is carried on a stretcher by anti-government protesters after clashes with riot police in the Independence Square in Kiev Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Turkey 2013 A protester falls after being hit by a water cannon fired by riot police, as others take cover behind a makeshift shelter, during clashes at Taksim Square in Istanbul. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at hundreds of protesters armed with rocks and fireworks as they tried to take back control of a central Istanbul square at the heart of fierce anti-government demonstrations Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 2015 A refugee keeps warm by an open fire at a make-shift camp close to a registration centre on the Greek island of Lesbos Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 2015 A red sun is seen over a dinghy overcrowded with Syrian refugees drifting in the Aegean sea between Turkey and Greece after its motor broke down off the Greek island of Kos Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Afghanistan 2001 An Afghan man and his son ride a bicycle past the body of a Taliban fighter killed on the motorway north of Kabul as Northern Alliance fighters approached Kabu Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Iraq 2003 A British army officer has her handgun cocked as Iraqi civilians flee fighting in Basra Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Greece 2013 Marialena, a 42-year-old homeless AIDS sufferer and former drug addict who is on a methadone rehabilitation program, sleeps under a bridge in central Athens Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 2010 Former conservative minister Kostis Hatzidakis is covered with blood after about 200 leftists attacked him with stones and sticks, shouting: "Thieves! Shame on you!" in central Athens, Greece Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 1995 Chechen civilians run in front of a destroyed Russian army APC as they flee from central Grozny, during fighting Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 2003 An Iraqi woman walks back home to the southern city of Basra as fires rage in the distance. British forces muscled into the outskirts of Iraq's second city of Basra capturing an industrial estate where Iraqi militia had spearheaded fierce resistance Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 2009 Smoke rises from tyres set ablaze as a Palestinian throws a stone at Israeli soldiers during clashes at the Qalandiya checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 2014 The remains of a Ukrainian army 120mm mortar shell at a front line of the pro-Russian position on the outskirts of the eastern Ukrainian town of Slaviansk Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Somalia 1992 A Somali driver is ordered to lie on the ground as US Marines establish security in the port of Mogadishu during an amphibious assault named Operation Restore Hope Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Afghanistan 2001 Habiba, (12 at the time), who was suffering from bone disease osteomielitis, waits for treatment on the floor outside Gulbahar Orthopedics hospital north of Kabul. Habiba's father was killed when she was born in the war against the Soviets. She suffered from severe pains Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 2009 A Palestinian man carries flour back home on his horse-drawn cart in the devastated village of Mughraqa following Israel's three-week long offensive in Gaza Strip Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Somalia 1992 A Somali child in a refugee camp in Baidoa Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Afghanistan 2001 Northern Alliance fighters ride on a T-62 tank past a dead body on the motorway north of Kabul Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, Greece 2012 Riot police run past a burning building during violent protests in central Athens Reuters Yannis Behrakis: Award-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis, 1997 Albanians scramble over an old fishing boat in a desperate bid to board a Greek frigate which docked in the port of Durres to evacuate Chinese and Iranian diplomats. Thousands of Albanians stampeded through police lines in their unsuccessful effort to reach the Greek naval vessel Reuters

What underpinned everything Behrakis did in his professional life was a determination to show the world what was happening in conflict zones and countries in crisis. He recognised the power of an arresting image both to capture attention and to inspire the viewer.

“My mission is to tell you the story and then you decide what you want to do,” he told a panel discussing Reuters’ Pulitzer Prize-winning photo series on the European migrant crisis. “My mission is to make sure that nobody can say: ‘I didn’t know’.”

Behrakis in Normany in 2016 (Reuters)

Behrakis was born in Athens in 1960. He came across a Time Life photography series book as a young man, which prompted him to enrol in a private photography course. His love affair with the trade had begun. He worked in a photographic studio in the mid-1980s, but said he found the atmosphere stifling.

It was watching Nick Nolte in 1983 film Under Fire – about a group of reporters working in Nicaragua in the days leading to the 1979 revolution – that inspired him to take up photojournalism.

He started at Reuters in Athens as a freelancer in 1987. In 1989, was sent on his first foreign assignment to Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya.

He quickly displayed a knack for being in the right place at the right time. When Gaddafi visited a hotel where journalists had been cooped up for several days, a scrum of reporters crowded around the Libyan leader to get pictures and soundbites. “I somehow managed to sneak next to him and get some wide-angle shots,” Behrakis wrote. “The next day my picture was all over the front pages of papers around the world.”

For the next three decades, Behrakis was regularly on the road covering violence and upheaval across Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

Kurdish refugees on Turkey’s border with Iraq in 1991 (Reuters)

Hi photos won awards, and admiration among the tight-knit community of war correspondents who noted his ability to find beauty amid chaos and for his courage to be at the heart of the action.

The images captured the terror of battle, fear, death, love, intimidation, starvation, homelessness, anger, despair and courage. 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. Behrakis took the picture from a height and used a slow-speed-zoom technique to create a dizzying sense of movement.

“The picture was very strong and the body of the boy almost floating in the air,” he said of the image. “It almost looked like his spirit was leaving his body for the heavens.”

A child killed crossing from Albania into Kosovo is prepared for burial in 1998 (Reuters)

In 2000, while covering the civil war in Sierra Leone, Behrakis was travelling in a convoy with Reuters colleagues Kurt Schork and Mark Chisholm, and AP cameraman Miguel Gil Moreno, when it was ambushed by gunmen, believed to be rebels.

Schork, one of Behrakis’ closest friends, was hit and died instantly, and Moreno was also killed. Behrakis and Chisholm escaped. Both survived the attack by crawling into the undergrowth beside the road and hiding in the jungle for hours until the gunmen disappeared. Behrakis took a photo of himself just after the ordeal. The picture shows him staring up at the sky, his eyes dazed. “I think that changed Yannis a lot,” Chisholm said of the attack and Schork’s death.

A self-portrait after surviving a fatal ambush in 2000 (Reuters)

The four reporters had got to know each other during the siege of Sarajevo in the mid-1990s and had become a “band of brothers”.

“He was a great character, a brilliant photographer, a great colleague,” Mark Chisholm said. Behrakis said he hated war but, like many others, he loved the travel, adventure and camaraderie that came with it. Rather than putting him off, Schork’s death drove him back to combat zones, at least for a while.

“His memory helped me to ‘return’ to covering what I consider the apotheosis of photojournalism: war photography,” Behrakis later 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. In 2015, Behrakis and a team of photographers and cameramen worked in relay for months to cover the thousands fleeing wars in Syria, Afghanistan and beyond. He took a younger and less experienced photographer, Alkis Konstantinidis, under his wing at that time and the two became close.

Konstantinidis, also part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team, described Behrakis as a tough, demanding mentor who led by example. “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,” he said. “You will always get something from him.”

Petrol bombs in Syntagma Square, Athens in 2012 (Reuters)

For a proud Greek with a young daughter, the refugee crisis had a profound effect on Behrakis, causing guilt, insomnia and nightmares. But it also brought out the best in a photographer who focused on the dignity of humans in distress rather than making them objects of pity.

Triandafyllou was with Behrakis when he took what many consider to be one of his best pictures – of a Syrian refugee carrying and kissing his daughter as he walked down a road in the rain. “That morning we left the hotel and it was raining and Yannis was complaining,” Triandafyllou recalled.

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“On the way to the border we saw these refugees and he started taking pictures. After a while I said ‘OK, let’s go’. He said ‘No, no, wait, I don’t have the picture.’ I was waiting in the car and he eventually came back and said ‘OK, I have the picture.’ He was looking for this picture.”

Behrakis’s description of the image was typically unorthodox. “I would love to be this father; I think every child would love to have a father like this,” he explained. “This picture proves that there are superheroes after all. He doesn’t wear a red cape, but he has a black plastic cape made out of garbage bags. For me this represents the universal father and the unconditional love of father to daughter.”

African delegate in white among hosts in Iran in 1997 (Reuters)

In 2017, Yannis launched a project to help Reuters build a more diverse team of news photographers. His appearances at photo festivals and events around the world inspired many young journalists to apply for a bursary from Reuters. He was very proud of this work, and was still looking for a new generation of talent right up until his death. Behrakis is survived by his wife Elisavet and their daughter Rebecca and his son Dimitri.

Yannis Behrakis, photojournalist, born 1960, died 2 March 2019