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Yannis Behrakis was born on 29 August, 1960 in Athens, Greece, is a Greek photojournalist (1960–2019). Discover Yannis Behrakis's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 59 years old?
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Photojournalist |
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59 years old |
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Virgo |
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29 August 1960 |
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29 August |
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Athens, Greece |
| Date of death |
2019 |
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Athens, Greece |
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Greece
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Yannis Behrakis Height, Weight & Measurements
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He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Yannis Behrakis Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Yannis Behrakis worth at the age of 59 years old? Yannis Behrakis’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from Greece. We have estimated Yannis Behrakis's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Yannis Behrakis (Γιάννης Μπεχράκης; 29 August 1960 – 2 March 2019) was a Greek photojournalist and a Senior editor with Reuters.
Yannis Behrakis was born in 1960 in Athens, Greece.
He studied photography in the Athens School of Arts and Technology and received his BA (Honours) from Middlesex University.
He worked as a studio photographer in Athens in 1985–86.
In 1987 he started a working relation as a contractor for Reuters and in late 1988 he was offered a staff job with the agency based in Athens.
His first foreign assignment was in Libya in January 1989.
He also covered four Summer Olympics, the 1994 World Cup in the US and many international sports events.
In 2000, Behrakis survived an ambush in Sierra Leone where the American reporter Kurt Schork and Spanish cameraman Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora of Associated Press Television were killed.
He and South African cameraman Mark Chisholm managed to get away from the attackers.
He moved with Reuters to Jerusalem as the chief photographer for Israel and the Palestinian Territories in 2008/9.
In 2010 he moved back in Greece to cover the financial crisis.
He took part in group and solo exhibitions in Athens, Thessaloniki, London, Edinburgh, New York, Rome, Barcelona, Madrid, Portugal, France and Dubai.
Since then he documented a variety of events including the funeral of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran, the changes in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, the wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Afghanistan, Lebanon, the first and second Gulf wars in Iraq, the Arab Spring in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, the civil war in Ukraine, the NATO bombing of ISIS in Kobane, Syria, the Greek financial crisis and the refugee crisis in 2015.
He also covered the Israeli–Palestinian conflict for many years, earthquakes in Kashmir, Turkey, Greece and Iran and major news events around the world.
In 2016, he led a Thomson Reuters team to win the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.
Behrakis died after a long battle with cancer in Athens on 2 March 2019, aged 58.
Behrakis is survived by his daughter Rebecca, son Dimitri and his wife Elisavet.
