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

Alexander Avramidis

Alkis Konstantinidis