Yannis Behrakis, one of Reuters' most decorated and best-loved photographers, has passed away after a long battle with cancer. He was 58. Since joining the news wire 30 years ago, Behrakis covered many of the most tumultuous events around the world, including conflicts in Afghanistan and Chechnya, the earthquake in Kashmir and the Egyptian uprising of 2011. In the process, he won the respect of both peers and rivals for his skill and bravery. He also led a team to a Pulitzer Prize in 2016 for coverage of the refugee crisis. Colleagues who worked with him in the field said Reuters had lost a talented and committed journalist. Here: Frantic Kurdish refugees struggle for a loaf of bread during a humanitarian aid distribution at the Iraqi-Turkish border, April 5, 1991. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





An Albanian man carries a child to a US Marine CH53 Super Stallion helicopter as it lands at Golame beach near the port of Durres, March 16, 1997. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





Rebel fighters run for cover inside a building on the frontline in Tripoli street in central Misrata, April 21, 2011. Tripoli street is the scene of some of the heaviest fighting between rebels and Gaddafi forces. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





An ethnic Albanian woman cries at her husband's funeral in Kosovo, January 1999. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





A starving Somali child is given water near a refugee camp in Baidoa, Somalia, December 14, 1992. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





A red sun is seen over a dinghy overcrowded with Syrian refugees drifting in the Aegean sea between Turkey and Greece after its motor broke down off the Greek island of Kos, August 11, 2015. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





A British army officer has her handgun cocked as Iraqi civilians flee fighting in Basra, Iraq, April 6, 2003. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





A Syrian refugee kisses his daughter as he walks through a rainstorm towards Greece's border with Macedonia, near the Greek village of Idomeni, September 10, 2015. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





Chechen civilians run in front of a destroyed Russian army APC as they flee from central Grozny, during fighting January 4, 1995. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





A Somali driver is ordered to lie on the ground as U.S. Marines establish security in the port of Mogadishu during an amphibious assault named Operation Restore Hope, in Somalia, December 9, 1992. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel Obai Kanu, 18, (C) is surrounded by government troops after he was captured following heavy fighting in Rogberi junction some 100 km east northeast of Freetown, Sierra Leone, May 23, 2000. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





An Afghan woman wearing a traditional Burqa walks on the side of a road as a Northern Alliance APC, (Armoured Personnel Carrier) carrying fighters and the Afghan flag, drives to a new position in the outskirts of Jabal us Seraj, some 60kms north of the Afghan capital Kabul, November 4, 2001. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





A Kashmiri earthquake survivor uses her sewing machine to sew up winter clothes, outside her shelter on the mountainous Buttlian area, some 25 km northeast of the earthquake-devastated city of Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, January 26, 2006. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





A group of riot policemen is engulfed in flames after protesters threw petrol bombs in Athens' Syntagma square during a 24-hour labour strike September 26, 2012. Greek police fired teargas at hooded youths hurling petrol bombs and stones as tens of thousands took to the streets in Greece's anti-austerity demonstration. The officers escaped with little to no injuries. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





An ethnic Albanian villager looks through a bullet hole in a bus window in the village of Lapusnik 20 km south-west of Kosovo's capital Pristina, May 11, 1998. The bus was destroyed during fierce fighting between Serbian forces and ethnic Albanian separatists. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





A protester wearing a gas mask walks beside a burning van during violent protests against austerity measures in Athens, Greece, June 28, 2011. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





Britain's Paula Radcliffe cries in a vehicle after retiring from the women's marathon in the Athens 2004 Olympic Games in Greece August 22, 2004. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





A pro-government Sierra Leonean fighter bites a bullet as he takes position in no man's land 2 km ahead of Rogberi junction where evidence of executed UN troops were found after heavy fighting between government troops and RUF rebels 100 km north east of Freetown, Sierra Leone, May 23, 2000. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





An Afghan man and his son ride a bicycle past the body of a Taliban fighter killed near Kabul as Northern Alliance fighters approached the Afghan capital in November 2001. Forces of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance entered Kabul after defeating Taliban forces north of the capital, civilians greeted opposition fighters and celebrated in the streets. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





A Syrian refugee holds onto his children as he struggles to walk off a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Lesbos September 24, 2015. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





An Israeli soldier walks through a field near Kibbutz Nahal Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip, February 25, 2008. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





The remains of a Ukrainian army 120mm mortar shell is seen at a front line of the pro-Russian position on the outskirts of the eastern Ukrainian town of Slaviansk May 17, 2014. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





Kurdish refugees flee close to the Iraqi-Turkish border, April 20, 1992. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





Two Albanians watch a U.S. marine CH53 Super Stallion helicopter take off from Golame beach near the port town of Durres, March 16. U.S. marines stormed out of helicopters onto Golame Beach to rescue American, Turkish and Italian citizens from the chaos of Albania as many frantic Albanians attempted to jump onboard. The helicopters kicked up blizzards of stinging sand as they landed and marines used rifle butts to beat off Albanians trying to board the aircraft and escape their country. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





A man covered in his own blood, escapes after a group of leftist protesters tried to lynch him while accusing him of being a fascist during a protest in Athens' Syntagma (Constitution) square October 5, 2011. Police fired tear gas at stone-throwing youths in central Athens, where thousands of striking state sector workers marched against cuts the government says are needed to save the nation from bankruptcy. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





A Serb policeman removes an AK-47 rifle from the body of an alleged Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) guerrilla in Rogovo, January 1999. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)





Yannis Behrakis takes a self portrait after surviving an ambush by Revolutionary United Front rebels in the jungle of Sierra Leone when Kurt Schork and Miguel Moreno were killed, May 2000. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)