Ka cika wannan jumla: An haifi Yannis Behrakis a shekara ta 1960 a Athens, Girka. Ya yi karatun daukar hoto a Makarantar Arts da Fasaha ta Athens kuma ya sami BA (Gwarzon) daga Jami'ar Middlesex. Ya yi aiki a matsayin mai daukar hoto a Athens a 1985-86. A shekarar 1987 ya fara aiki a matsayin dan kwangila na kamfanin dillancin labarai na Reuters kuma a karshen shekarar 1988 an ba shi aikin ma'aikata tare da hukumar da ke Athens. Aikinsa na farko a kasashen waje ya kasance a Libya a watan Janairun 1989. Tun daga wannan lokacin ya rubuta abubuwan da suka faru da dama ciki har da jana'izar Ayatollah Khomeini a Iran, da canje-canje a Gabashin Turai da Balkans, da yaƙe-yaƙe a Croatia, Bosnia da Kosovo, Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Afghanistan, Lebanon, na farko da na biyu Gulf Wars a Iraki, da Arab Spring a Misira, Libya da Tunisia, yakin basasa a Ukraine, da NATO bombardment na ISIS a Kobane, Syria, da Girkanci kudi rikicin da kuma
rikicin 'yan gudun hijira a shekarar 2015.