Lampedusa Album

Spiaggia dei Conigli beach, Lampedusa.

A family on vacation waiting for a boat.

Lampedusa harbour. A couple jet skiing and a shipwreck with writings in Arab on the back.

Cala Guitgia beach, Lampedusa.

Lampedusa's boats graveyard.

Tourists taking photos of a landing airplane. The small, 6,000 inhabitants island of Lampedusa, receives more than 100,000 visitors per year.

Lampedusa town centre.

One of the main streets of Lampedusa town.

Giacomo Sferlazzo. Born and raised in Lampedusa, he is a human rights activisti, a musician, and one of the founders of Porto M, an alternative migration museum in Lampedusa. As part of one of his artistic projects, Giacomo collects and exhibits at Porto M objects from the migrants' boats shipwrecked close to Lampedusa.

Military installations in western Lampedusa, a part of the island almost completely dedicated to military installations.

An abandoned buckshot in the western part of Lampedusa, almost completely dedicated to military installations.

A Virgin Mary's statue coverd with a thermal blanket at Porto M, an alternative migration museum in Lampedusa.

The 'Porta d'Europa' (Door of Europe) monument is dedicated to the migrants who lost their lives at sea.

Lampedusa's harbour. Local fishermen unload the catch of the day.

Group spinning in Lampedusa town main square.

August 27th 2016. Some of the 240 migrants rescued at sea by the Italian Coast Guard disembark at Lampedusa's harbour.

28/08/2016, Lampedusa (Italy). In the island's harbour, some of the 240 migrants rescued at sea by the Italian Coast Guard board a bus that will take them to the island' reception centre for migrants.

Lampedusa's harbour at night.

August 27th 2016. Some of the 240 migrants rescued at sea by the Italian Coast Guard disembark at Lampedusa's harbour.

The night sky over Lampedusa.