Athens Photo World 2019, a photography festival dedicated to the work and memory of photojournalist Yannis Behrakis, was held in Athens, Greece, from 7th to 16th June 2019. This was the inaugural year of the event, which was possible due to the collaboration of award-winning photographer Thanassis Stavrakis, the artistic director of the event, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Visitors got the opportunity to get acquainted with photographs and other works of Yannis Behrakis. The event also held exhibitions by other APW contributors.
APW has also announced the “Yannis Behrakis” International Photojournalism Award. The winner of the award will receive a cash prize of Euros 15,000 at a special event to be held in Athens, Greece, in late September 2019. The winning photographic project will be exhibited at the next APW event. From next year onwards, the award will be presented on the last day of the APW event. Submissions for the 2020 edition of the award will be open from 31st December to 30th April.
A Syrian refugee kisses his daughter as he walks through a rainstorm towards Greece’s border with North Macedonia, near the Greek village of Idomeni, September 10, 2015.
Residents of Kabul celebrate and escort Northern Alliance fighters entering the Afghan capital Kabul, November 13, 2001, following the collapse of Taliban rule.
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.
An Afghan woman wearing a traditional Burqa walks on the side of a road as a Northern Alliance APC, (Armoured Personnel Carrier) carrying fighters and the Afghan flag, drives to a new position in the outskirts of Jabal us Seraj, some 60kms north of the Afghan capital Kabul November 4, 2001.
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 Iraqis on their way to the central city of Kerbala through a sand storm April 19, 2003, as part of the Arbaiin pilgrimage, one of the holiest events on the Shiite calendar.
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.
