{"id":1163,"date":"2024-07-05T12:41:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T09:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apw.gr\/thanassis-stavrakis\/"},"modified":"2024-07-22T18:04:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T15:04:36","slug":"thanassis-stavrakis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apw.gr\/en\/thanassis-stavrakis\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanassis Stavrakis"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1163\" class=\"elementor elementor-1163 elementor-374\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7a0bcb1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7a0bcb1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" 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data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Biography<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9755d8c ob-harakiri-inherit de_scroll_animation_no elementor-invisible ob-has-background-overlay elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"9755d8c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeIn&quot;,&quot;_animation_delay&quot;:200,&quot;_ob_use_harakiri&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;_ob_harakiri_writing_mode&quot;:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;_ob_harakiri_text_clip&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;_ob_widget_stalker_use&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_poopart_use&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;_ob_shadough_use&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_allow_hoveranimator&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Thanassis Stavrakis<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5e03601 ob-harakiri-inherit de_scroll_animation_no elementor-invisible ob-has-background-overlay elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5e03601\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeIn&quot;,&quot;_animation_delay&quot;:400,&quot;_ob_use_harakiri&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;_ob_harakiri_writing_mode&quot;:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;_ob_postman_use&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_widget_stalker_use&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_poopart_use&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;_ob_shadough_use&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_allow_hoveranimator&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>He was born in Stockholm in 1973. He studied photography in 1991-1992 in Athens. 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class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5f2ee5f1\" data-id=\"5f2ee5f1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ob_column_hoveranimator&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;_ob_column_has_pseudo&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cf4dea3 ob-harakiri-inherit de_scroll_animation_no elementor-invisible ob-has-background-overlay elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cf4dea3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" id=\"more\" 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He worked in the photography department of the newspaper Ethnos from 1997 to 1999.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999-2001 he collaborated with the magazine Epsilon of the Sunday Eleftherotypia.<\/p>\n<p>From November 2006 until 2010 he was an external collaborator with a permanent photographic double-page in the magazine TAKHIDROMOS of the newspaper TA NEA Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2000 he started working at the international news agency THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Since then, it has covered dozens of news events of global interest (social unrest, the Pope&#8217;s travels, political events, Olympic Games, World Football Championships, European Football Championships, Formula 1, World and European Championships in basketball, swimming etc.).<\/p>\n<p>In recent years he has photographed the migration and refugee crisis in Greece in various ways as well as the economic crisis in the country and its political developments.<\/p>\n<p>Since the summer of 2014 he is the head of the photo departments of ASSOCIATED PRESS for Greece, Cyprus, Albania and North Macedonia.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography Home Thanassis Stavrakis \u00a9Petros Giannakouris Biography Thanassis Stavrakis He was born in Stockholm in 1973. He studied photography in 1991-1992 in Athens. 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