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Petros Giannakouris’ Greece Migrant Crisis Instagram Takeover
This week, AP staff photographer based in Greece Petros Giannakouris took over our Instagram feed with photos from Europe’s migrant crisis.
Pictures of the Week
Highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
World Refugee Day
Imagine the entire population of Britain uprooted: The U.N. refugee agency says just over that number — 65 million people — were displaced worldwide by the end of last year, easily setting a new postwar record, as it warned that European and other rich nations can expect the tide to continue if root causes aren’tContinue reading “World Refugee Day”
Pictures of the Week
Highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
Pictures of the Week
Highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
Greece Migrants Last Stop
Photos by Petros Giannakouris Before catching the world’s attention, Idomeni was a sleepy village on the Greek border with Macedonia, the last stop on the train before heading through former Yugoslav countries and onto western Europe.
Born a Refugee
Photos by Petros Giannakouris The women walked across the Syrian border into Turkey heavily pregnant, crossed the Aegean Sea in perilous journeys that risked their own lives and those of the babies they carried, because they dreamed of their children being born in a better world — in a peaceful, prosperous country in central or northernContinue reading “Born a Refugee”
Pictures of the Week
Highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
AP Monthly Staff Photo Contest
Each month The Associated Press management honors photographers for outstanding coverage while on assignment.
Iraqi Museum Refuge for Relics of the Past
After the destruction wreaked on archaeological sites by Islamic State group, the collections at the Iraq’s National Museum in Baghdad have become even more important.
Greece Hopeless On The Border
Photos by Petros Giannakouris Hamo had already walked 17 kilometers (10 miles) that day, pushing his 8-year-old daughter, Sidra, in her wheelchair, when he stopped in a field to ask directions to the Idomeni refugee camp.
Pictures of the Week
Highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
AP Photographers Honored with Pictures of the Year International (POYi) Awards
Pictures of the Year International (POYi) announced this week the results for its annual photojournalism contest and several AP photographers were awarded prizes.
Greece Migrants Winter Crossing
Photos by Petros Giannakouris The seas are rough and cold. The wind is bitter.
Pictures of the Week
Highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
Greece Stuck In Crisis
Anyone hoping that Greece might finally have a quiet year was quickly disappointed in 2015.
Greece’s Abandoned Wealth
Photos by Petros Giannakouris Since it almost went broke in 2010, Greece has suffered horrific job losses, soaring long-term unemployment, across-the-board income cuts and over-taxation, despite a constant deterioration in state-provided health, education and welfare services.
Migrant Children at Play
Among the hundreds of thousands of people making their way across Europe, fleeing conflict and poverty in places like Syria and Iraq, there are many families whose young children find things to smile about even after harrowing experiences and long journeys.
Arriving to Europe
Photos by Petros Giannakouris It’s a small step in a long and uncertain escape from civil war and the Islamic State in Syria and difficult circumstances in other nations — but perhaps one of the most emotional.
Daily Life Around the World
AP’s Daily Life series is a visual exploration of imagery from around the globe.
Greece Bailout
In late June 2015, another incarnation of Greece’s economic crisis began when Greek banks closed on June 29 amid fears that Greece was heading for a euro exit.
Greece Crisis On The Wall
Photos by Petros Giannakouris Graffiti in Athens used to be all about football, politics or teenage crushes — silly enough to be laughed off, rare enough to be frowned upon.
Greece The Bailout Years
Photos and Text by Petros Giannakouris Coming home to Greece was always a relief after covering war and upheaval abroad. The danger and the adventure were over. A crisis at home feels very different.
Greece Rocket War
Photos by Petros Giannakouris It’s pure rocket science, and residents of this Greek island village love it.
German WWII Compensation to Greece
Photos by Petros Giannakouris The town of Kalavryta, in Western Greece, is now chiefly known as a mountain resort. On December 13, 1943, it was the site of the greatest massacre perpetrated by the occupying German troops in Greece.
Greece Flour War
Photos by Petros Giannakouris For a few hours on a single day every year, the prim and elegant Greek seaside town of Galaxidi explodes into frantic childishness.
Sports Roundup: Dec. 30, 2014
Over the last month, we have gathered a selection of some of our favorite sports moments captured by AP photographers.
Greece’s Macedonian Legacy
Photos by Petros Giannakouris They were the ancient world’s ultimate social climbers.
October 24, 2014
Outdoor Cinemas Fade To Black In Greece
Photos by Petros Giannakouris For decades Greeks have enjoyed watching the latest Hollywood blockbusters and old classics under the stars.
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