Alkis Konstantinidis was awarded for photographing the war

2023 World Press Photo Contest. From bombed-out Kharkiv, Ukraine, the photograph - Reuters contributor since 2014 - Pulitzer Prize winner for team coverage of the refugee crisis

Honorable mention for Greek photojournalist Alkis Konstantinidis in the World Press Photo 2023 competition (@worldpressphoto), with his image standing out in the «Europe, Singles» category. Entitled «Yana and Victor» and taken in Kharkiv, Ukraine, the photograph captures the pain, death, and poverty of war through the story of Yana Bachek, the woman who was forced to mourn her 79-year-old father on April 18, 2022, who was killed on the street while out to buy a loaf of bread. Konstantinidis« lens captured his daughter, Yana Bachek, mourning over his lifeless body. Standing next to her is her partner, Yevgeny Vlasenko, while her mother Lyubov tries to comfort her.

Greek photojournalist Alkis Konstantinidis is among the 24 winners of this year's World Press Photo Contest, as his photograph «Yana and Victor» was selected from among more than 60,000 photographs submitted by 3,752 photographers from 127 countries.

As reported by World Press Photo website, Born in 1984, Alkis Konstantinidis continues to be based in Athens. Starting out as a freelancer in 2009, he began working with Reuters in 2014, covering the events of the deep economic crisis and then the huge refugee influx into Europe. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his teamwork on the refugee crisis in 2016 in Europe and in 2019 in Mexico. Among other things, he has covered the wars in Ukraine and Iran, the uprising in Egypt in 2011, the fires in Australia and Greece, the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh, the food crisis in Madagascar, as well as the funeral of Elizabeth II and the Olympic Games in Rio and Tokyo.

Kythera.News congratulates Alkis Konstantinidis.