The rescue vessel Aquarius is operated by the NGOs SOS Méditerranée and Médicins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Album | In between (Preview) |
A rubber boat in distress with 120 people on board is found approximately 23 miles north-east of Tripoli (Libya).
Album | In between (Preview) |
Three women on board the SOS Méditerranée rescue rhib that will transfer them to the Aquarius, just after being rescued from a rubber boat in distress.
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Evening muslim prayer on board the Aquarius, the night before disembarkation in Brindisi (Italy).
Album | In between (Preview) |
An high society crowd on its way to a private event at Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Album | Wealthy Amsterdam |
39 – Soap bubles, Amsterdam (2016)
36 – Round square, Barcelona (2009)
José Martín, from Tolimán, poses for a portrait. He sells ‘pulque’, an alcoholic beverage of ancient origins, made from the ‘maguey’ (agave).
Album | Of Corn and God |
White and black corn. Mexico is home to more than 60 different native species of corn.
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Doña Isabel, from Tolimán, in her ‘milpa’ (a plot of land typically cultivated with corn, chile, beans and zucchini).
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Eric, a young boy from Tolimán, poses for a portrait in front of the wall of his house.
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The ‘chimal’ of San Miguel. During a celebration of pre-Hispanic origins, a huge structure covered with dasylirion leaves and filled with offers is raised in the main square of the village.
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Boys from the village watch the ‘chimal’ of San Miguel being raised. The tradition wants them to be dressed like either indians or spaniards to stage the ‘Danza de la Conquista’ (The Dance of the Conquest).
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A procession through the streets of Querétaro, with a rooster referring to the tradition of ‘palenque’ (Mexican cockfight).
Album | Of Corn and God |
Inside the migrants shelter built by the municipality of Milan inside the central railway station, a volunteer serve food to a group of Syrian refugees.
Album | Northbound |
Gianluca Oss Pinter, a volunteer working in the migrants shelter inside Milan railway station. Since when he decided to help, he sleeps in a truck parked in front of the station and dedicates almost all his days to the cause.
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Mohammed Ismail (20, from Sudan). “So far, Europe treated me very well. In Libya if the police takes you to the police station you don’t know if you will come out alive. Everybody tries to rob you, you cannot trust anyone but your life is in their hands. Two of the migrants who were traveling with me died at sea while passing from a small overcrowded boat to a bigger even more overcrowded boat. In addition to the months of work in Libya I paid about $2,000 for the trip. It’s my family that pushed me to learn English, they knew I would need to go to Europe. I don’t do this trip for me but for them; as soon as I find a job I will start to send money to my family.”
Album | Northbound |
Attilio Dellera (Volontarius NGO), working at Brenner station. “Here at the Brenner border the flow of people pass quite unnoticed, but we are talking about 150-200 people a day. I started coming here as a volunteer, but then due to staff shortages Volontarius hired me, and here I am. We do what we can, but here you can often see shady figures… smugglers who ask for money to migrants to buy them the ticket (to Austria), or load them into a car and then unload them before the border.”
Album | Northbound |
A group of migrants watched by the Italian police at Brenner train station. Austrian and German police stops migrants aboard international trains to Germany, but after formal routine controls Italian police do not identify them and let them proceed towards Austria and Germany.
Album | Northbound |
Sep 20th 2015, Harmica, Croatia.
Migrants travelling on the Balkan Route, stranded for days in Croatia after the Slovenian border was suddenly closed days before, protest asking for a reopening of the border.
Album | Balkan Route |
Sep 26th 2015, Salzburg station (Austria).
Migrants travelling on the Balkan Route who are attempting to reach Germany by train, are retain by the Austrian police inside the railway station.
Album | Balkan Route |
Sep 26th 2015, Austrian side of the border with Germany, near Salzburg.
A group of migrants travelling on the Balkan Route wait to cross the Saalach river, which marks the Austria-Germany border near Salzburg.
Album | Balkan Route |
Heliegenkreuz, Austria. Migrants coming from Hungary wait to proceed towards Germany.
Album | Balkan Route |
April 27th 2015, Austria – Germany border near Freilassing (Germany).
Migrants travelling on the Balkan Route, who just entered Germany from Austria, wait for the security screening by the German border police to be admitted into the country.
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Sep 21st 2015, Hungary-Austria border, near Nickelsdorf.
A family and other migrants travelling on the Balkan Route take a break in Austrian territory after having walked (approximately 5 km) from the nearest Hungarian train station (Hegyeshalom).
Album | Balkan Route |
Bregana, Croatia. Several local NGOs are providing food to the migrants stranded at the border with Slovenia.
Album | Balkan Route |
Sep 21st 2015, Nickelsdorf (Austria).
Migrants travelling on the Balkan Route, surveilled by an Austrian soldier, wait to be admitted in Austria after having crossed the border with Hungary.
Album | Balkan Route |
Nickelsdorf migrants reception centre, Austria. Migrants are routed to Germany on buses provided by the Austrian authorities.
Album | Balkan Route |
Bregana, Croatian side of the border with Slovenia. A young boy and his father while waiting to cross the border.
Album | Balkan Route |
Sep 21st 2015, Nickelsdorf (Austria).
Migrant families traveling on the Balkan route cross the Hungary-Austria border near Nickelsdorf.
Album | Balkan Route |
Sep 19th 2015, Harmica, Croatia.
One of the migrants travelling on the Balkan Route, stranded in Croatia at the border with Slovenia, and a police officer surveilling the area.
Album | Balkan Route |
Nickelsdorf, Austria. Migrants coming from Hungary queue up for transportation to Germany.
Album | Balkan Route |
Sep 21st 2015. Nickelsdorf reception camp, Austria.
An Austrian soldier monitors migrants in line to board buses which will take them either to other reception camps within the country or beyond the border, to Germany.
Album | Balkan Route |
Sep 20th 2015, Heiligenkreuz refugee camp, Austria.
The night falls over a refugee camp where migrants travelling on the Balkan Route, who entered Austria from Slovenia or Hungary, spend the night in tents waiting to be relocated elsewhere.
Album | Balkan Route |
The migrants stranded in Ventimiglia have become one of the symbols of the ongoing exodus of refugees, the largest since World War II.
Album | We are not going back |
Top view of the border between Italy and France, sealed to migrants by the French authorities since the beginnings of June. The initial makeshift camp is visible on the rocks beside the road.
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Menton-Garavan railway station, serving the first town on the French side of the France-Italy border. Three police officers take a migrant pulled out of the train into custody.
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Some of the tents initially used by the migrants to take shelter on the rocks, and a yatch on the background. The exclusive French Riviera is only a few hundreds metres away.
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During a protest a few metres from the French border, the Italian police push back a group of activists and migrants.
Album | We are not going back |
The camp has been set up on the premises of the old Italian tourist office, under the railway that connects Italy to France.
Album | We are not going back |
The camp has been set up on the premises of the old Italian tourist office, under the railway that connects Italy to France.
Album | We are not going back |
Bob (18, from Sudan), poses for a portrait. He says he is one of the few survivors of a shipwreck in the Mediterranean which claimed the lives of over 400 people.
Album | We are not going back |
The camp’s media centre, where activists and migrants organize their activities and stay in touch with their relatives and friends.
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Idris (20), from Ethiopia, poses for a portrait. He wants to reach the UK. In Libya, he paid a man for the boat trip but it was a scam, so he was forced to work 4 months in Libya to pay for the boat trip again. After landing in Sicily and crossing Italy, he was stopped by the police in Menton and deported to Ventimiglia.
Album | We are not going back |
The self-organised community at the camp also seeks to provide migrants with basic information.
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Four activists teach French language to a group of migrants as part of the daily activities at the camp.
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Mohamed (20), from Sudan, poses in front of a banner that reads: “We are not going back because we lost everything. We are not for trade, we are human beings.”
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Daily life at the camp. The migrants stranded there for days, weeks or even months wait for the right moment to try to cross the border again. Many take the risk of walking at night along the railway, others decide to rely on the ‘passeurs’ (smugglers) mafia.
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Migrants and other swimmers at Balzi Rossi, the bathing area closest to the border.
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Evening prayer during the month of Ramadan, a few metres from the border; the imam comes here from France to bring food and comfort to the migrants.
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One of the migrants stranded in Ventimiglia contemplates the sea at sunset.
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French-Italian border, July the 14th 2015. Some of the migrants stranded in Italian territory observe the fireworks fired over the border, in France, on the occasion of the national day celebrating ideals of freedom, equality and brotherhood.
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