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Lefteris Pitarakis might attend OPEN-i's event

Live Webinar with Emphas.is Tuesday 1 Feb 12.00-13.30 GMT at wimaba

February 1, 2011 from 12pm to 1:30pm

Karim Ben Khelifa, CEO of Emphas.is and Tomas Van Houtryve, VII Network photographer will talk about the project and how they see it helping fund long term projects. See http://emphas.is/ for more details OPEN-i uses Wimba Classroom to host its interactive webinars. Depending on the format of each webinar, there are options to interact with the presenters and other listeners by chat,…See More

Jan 24, 2011

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Current position and base (organization, company, etc.): staff photographer, London, The Associated Press

Biography: Born in Athens, Greece, where he studied photography, majoring in photojournalism. Worked as a freelance photographer in Greece until 1998 when started working in the Athens bureau of The Associated Press assigned to AP coverage in the greater Balkan region, with multiple assignments in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, and the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, during and after the NATO war. From April 2000 to April 2005 he covered extensively the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Travelled in the greater Middle East region for assignments to Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan and covered the aftermath of the US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Since April 2005 he is covering news, sports and features for the Associated Press in Europe, Middle East and Africa regions with most recent major assignment the summer 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon. That body of work from the conflict along with the rest of the AP photo team that covered it, made them finalists for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize.