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Aris Messinis
Chief photographer for AFP in Greece
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Chasing the moon

Thursday 9 August 2018

"183 minutes may sound like plenty of time to take a good picture," writes Aris Messinis, chief photographer in Greece.

"But not if you’re trying to capture a lunar eclipse. In multiple locations."

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Stepping on bodies to survive

Monday 7 November 2016

"It was the purest form of survival instinct that I have ever seen," writes Aris Messinis, AFP's chief photographer in Greece who spent two weeks aboard an NGO boat rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean.

"Undertaking a desperate, crazy journey to survive another day. Stepping on and over dead bodies -- as carefully as chaos would allow -- to save yourself. I’ve covered the refugee crisis for more than a year. But what I saw at sea off the Libyan coast was just crazy, surreal."

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Clamouring for cash on the streets of Athens

Thursday 2 July 2015

"We knew there would be ugly scenes, as Greece said it was opening its beleaguered banks for three days to allow elderly people to draw cash," writes the photographer Aris Messinis. "People shoving, yelling in anger at hapless bank employees. In six long years of crisis, we have seen images like this any number of times. It’s sad. But it’s the reality and your job is to record it."

"Images like these are very powerful, and make you think they are the whole story. In truth they are only part of it. But cool-headed behavior is hard to express with an image."

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