Médecins Sans Frontières Pay Tribute To Yannis Behrakis With A Touching Video
- by XpatAthens
- Thursday, 14 March 2019
Yannis Behrakis was one of the most significant photojournalists in the world, and a person who found hope even in the most difficult circumstances. Behrakis captured some of the most important political, combat, sporting, and social events of the past 25 years. For him photo reporting wasn’t a job, it was a mission. An anthropocentric mission whose only goal was to raise awareness for the things happening around us. His camera captured thousands of stories that would have otherwise been left untold.
“My mission is to tell you the story and then you decide what you want to do, my mission is to make sure that nobody can say: ‘I didn’t know’.” – Yannis Behrakis
During his journeys around the world, Behrakis encountered the Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) a few times. “We do different things, but we share the same mission” he said. In October 2016, he worked together with the organization on a photography exhibition named ‘People on the Move’ that presented the journey of refugees through Greece.
As a hopeless optimist Yannis Behrakis, was a firm believer that a single image could change the world. People like him are a hope for a better and more unprejudiced world.
Watch the Médecins Sans Frontières' touching tribute to Yannis Behrakis.
Watch the Médecins Sans Frontières' touching tribute to Yannis Behrakis.