{"id":3934,"date":"2020-09-16T08:22:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T08:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apw.gr\/?page_id=3934"},"modified":"2020-09-28T13:57:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T13:57:03","slug":"yannis-behrakis-award-2020","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/2022.apw.gr\/en\/yannis-behrakis-award-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Yannis Behrakis International Photojournalism Award 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Winner 2020″ font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInLeft”]<\/p>\n

Fabio Bucciarelli<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Fabio Bucciarelli is an award-winning photographer and author known for his documentation of conflicts and humanitarian consequences of war. In the last decade he has covered extensively the major world changing events in Middle East, Africa, Europe and Central and South America.<\/p>\n

Bucciarelli\u2019s documentary works have been recognized with the most prestigious awards in the profession including the Robert Capa Gold Medal, World Press Photo, POY Photographer of the Year, Prix Bayeux for War Correspondents, Days Japan International between other prizes and citations.<\/p>\n

Bucciarelli\u2019s images are frequently published in international magazines and newspapers and his photos are exhibited, with solo and group exhibitions, in museum and galleries worldwide and his artworks appears in several collections.<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”3790″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeInLeft”]“We Take the Dead From Morning Till Night”<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the moment when the coronavirus was ripping through northern Italy, working on assignment for The New York Times, I gained exclusive access to the Red Cross workers who were going door to door around Bergamo, the hardest hit part of Italy’s hardest hit region, to check on those who were infected and take the worst of them to the hospital.<\/p>\n

It was a devastatingly intimate view of the way the coronavirus was tearing apart family after family in the close-knit region. Working cautiously in goggles, gloves and respirator and clothed in a hazmat suit, I traveled with the workers in the ambulance, and entered the bedrooms, living rooms and kitchens of families ravaged by the virus.<\/p>\n

The simple surroundings I encountered belied the significance of what Bergamo had become: at that time, ground zero for the coronavirus in all the world.<\/p>\n

When the children said good-bye to mothers, fathers and grandparents who were hoisted onto dollies and taken away, no one could know if it was for the last time. The work did not end at the front door, however.<\/p>\n

I entered overwhelmed intensive care units and overcrowded hospital corridors lined with Covid-19 patients.<\/p>\n

In the most tragic cases the families allowed me to follow them to cemeteries for the pared down yet poignant ceremonies that only the closest relatives could attend.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]