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[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInLeft”]Dar Yasin, born in 1973, in\u00a0Indian Kashmir.\u00a0 Studied bachelor\u2019s in computer science and technology in South of India.<\/p>\n

Dar has extensively covered Kashmir conflict,\u00a0South Asia Earth Quake and its aftermath and the historical opening of bus route between divided Kashmir.<\/p>\n

On assignment in Afghanistan has covered Afghan War, Afghan Refugees and Daily life of war-torn Afghanis.\u00a0Dar has also covered Rohingya refugee crisis who fled large- scale violence and persecution in Myanmar.\u00a0His works\u00a0have appeared in almost all the\u00a0major newspapers and news magazines around the globe.<\/p>\n

Dar has\u00a0won dozens of international and national photo awards including POYi, Atlanta Photojournalism, China Press Photo contest,\u00a0the\u00a0National Headliner Awards,\u00a0finalist in WARS Photography Award, the\u00a0Sigma Delta Chi Award by the Society of Professional Journalism.\u00a0And Indian\u2019s most prestigious Ramnath Goenka Award twice for the stories from Kashmir.\u00a0Dar also was part of the Associated Press team that won\u00a0the Hal Boyle Award for\u00a0the\u00a0Rohingya Exodus\u00a0in\u00a0the Overseas Press Club\u00a0and\u00a0a\u00a0Robert F. Kennedy Award in the International Print category. In year 2017 he received\u00a0NPPA (National Press Photographers Association)\u00a0Humanitarian Award\u00a0which is presented to an individual for playing a key role in the saving of lives or in rescue situations.<\/p>\n

Most recently his work was exhibited in Visa Pour L\u2019images in Perpignan.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”3534″ css_animation=”fadeInRight”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInLeft”]Dar Yasin, on winning the Yannis Behrakis International Photojournalism Award 2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n

It was day 65 of the internet and mobile blackout in Kashmir. It took Thanassis relentlessly messaging my brother, Rafiq in Mumbai, Rafiq calling my neighbour on their landline, Thanassis then calling on Rafiq\u2019s cell and Rafiq using his wife\u2019s cellphone to patch the call, for me to faintly hear Thanssis congratulating me on winning this award. As you can imagine, I obviously thought I was hearing voices in my head and I kept telling Thanassis, \u201cthank you for letting me know I have been shortlisted!\u201d He had to repeat it a few times before I finally heard, \u201cYou are the winner!\u201d Needless to say, I was overwhelmed. I was happy. But that happiness was tinged with helplessness too.
\nI have won this award for my documentation of the situation in Kashmir. Not just these past few weeks or months, but years. Years of bearing witness to bloodshed, violence, strife and unrest. Not in someplace far away. But in my own homeland. In my own city. In my own neighbourhood. It doesn\u2019t get more personal than this. To win an award for recording mayhem and devastation in my backyard almost seemed absurd. But then on the heels of that thought, a voice inside me remembered the lines I had read when I was preparing images for this award, and I quote, \u201cI truly believe that photojournalism and journalism in the right hands can make the world a better place,\u201d Yannis Behrakis had said. Yannis\u2019 compass was to make sure history was duly reported. That is when I felt that I DID deserve this award. It felt right. It felt, not like a celebration, but an acknowledgement and encouragement from a fellow traveler who knew only too well of the price we pay for every image we take. Winning this award, an award instituted in memory of Yannis Behrakis, the man and the photojournalist, is a healing balm that will go a long way towards reminding me, in my darkest hours, that no matter what, I should have courage and persevere. Just like he did.
\nElisavet Saridou Behrakis, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and Athens Photo World \u2013 thank you for instituting this award. Now more than ever, we as photojournalists need every last bit of encouragement to continue doing what we do. Thank you to Thanassis and Lefteris. And to the jury. It can\u2019t have been easy.
\nTo Benny Snyder\u00a0 and AP, you have been there every step of the way. I\u2019m very grateful and very blessed.
\nTo my friends and my family, thank you for being there. Always. It is only because of you and with you, that I can do any of this. Thank you.\u00a0To the world out there, we have done our best.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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