These are the Pulitzer Prize winning photos from the Greek photographers (photos)

John Behrakis, Alkis Konstantinidis and Alexander Avramidis, the three Greek Reuters photographers who won the Pulitzer prize in the category for ‘Breaking News’, managed to convey the ordeal and the personal stories of the refugees crossing the Aegean Sea in search of a safer and better life for them and their families. Through their eyes and camera lenses they brought us powerful imagery of refugee-packed, half sunken dinghy boats in the Aegean Sea, expressions of agony, fear, exhaustion, anger and finally relief on the faces of refugees. But above all they gave us the human will to survive.

John Behrakis

An Afghan migrant jumps off an overcrowded raft onto a beach at the Greek island of Lesbos October 19, 2015. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

Alexander Avramidis

A Macedonian police officer raises his baton towards migrants to stop them from entering into Macedonia at Greece's border near the village of Idomeni, Greece, August 22, 2015. REUTERS/Alexandros Avramidis

Alkis Konstantinidis

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