Alex Majoli A Syrian refugee woman desperately searching for her two year old child which she lost on the journey to Pireus from Lesbos.
While I was photographing the refugees coming into the port, I noticed (...)
this woman who was desperately searching for her lost child and was surprised to see her leave without having found her. She was faced with a hard decision: choosing to leave a child behind and carry on her journey for her other children’s sake or lose the bus that would take her to the next checkpoint of her journey. Greece 2015. © Alex Majoli | Magnum Photos
Mark Power The wedding dress of a 52-year old bride in the hut she shares with her 57-year old husband. They were married in the camp three days before.
First opened in April 2014, Azraq is currently a tempo (...)
rary home to 40,000 Syrian refugees, although it has the capacity to house 130,000. Azraq Syrian Refugee Camp, Jordan. October 22, 2015. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman Along the Turkish-Syrian border in Hatay Province. Under the cover of night a network of Syrian smugglers transport a family fleeing the violence inside Syria on a rowboat across the Orentes River, (...)
which marks a stretch of the border between northern Syria and southern Turkey. Since the start of the Syrian conflict in March of 2011 over 11,000 Syrian refugees have fled the country and are now living in refugee camps along the Turkish border. Turkey, March 2, 2012. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Paolo Pellegrin Due to the long hours of waiting in extreme heat conditions and the general exhaustion, refugees sometimes collapse and faint.
In early September 2015, an estimated 15,000 to 20, 000 refugees, rou (...)
ghly 70% Syrians, wait to complete their registration with the authorities in Mytilini, capital city of the Greek island of Lesbos. For most the living conditions are miserable: sleeping on the ground, no access to toilets and extreme temperatures.
The Greek authorities have been overwhelmed by the number of refugees and as a result of this the registration process has slowed down enormously. It takes 7 to 10 days for refugees to get the document ready that will allow them to buy a ferry ticket and be transferred to the mainland. From there, the majority will continue north, towards the Macedonian border. Afterwards, they will continue their journey to western Europe. Lesbos, Greece. 2015. With support from the Pulitzer Center. © Paolo Pellegrin | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak Refugees/Migrants mostly from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan arriving in and being processed through Austria on their journey through the Balkans to Northern Europe. Refugees arrive on the Austrian side (...)
of the river Inn in Braunau and mostly procede to the Bavarian/German side town of Simbach. Simbach, Bavaria. November, 2015. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Olivia Arthur Children from the town of Obock in Djibouti collecting belongings that have been left behind on the 'smugglers beach' just outside the town. Migrants come from Ethiopia and surrounding countries to (...)
be smuggled across to the Arabian Peninsular despite the ongoing war in Yemen and huge numbers of refugees making exactly the opposite journey across the Gulf of Aden to camps just outside Obock. Obock, Djibouti. 2015. © Olivia Arthur | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini Details of migrants' personal belongings and trash caught in the ice. The migrants who live in the "Jungle" of Calais are a mix of refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants from Darfur, Afghan (...)
istan, Syria, Iraq, Eritrea. The Calais jungle is the name given to the the shantytown near Calais city, where migrants live while they attempt to enter the United Kingdom by stowing away on ferries, cars, or trains travelling through the Port of Calais or the Eurotunnel Calais Terminal. About 5 000 migrants are living in the Jungle of Calais. Calais, France. January 20, 2016. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Larry Towell Debris left along freight train tracks by migrants travelling north to the US border riding in empty boxcars and on roofs. Violent gangs and human traffickers who control the transit have made migr (...)
ation increasingly dangerous. Many migrants are fleeing the gang violence of Central America. Tapachula, Chiapas. Mexico. 2015. © Larry Towell | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Family of: Sahar Awad from Sudan and her husband from Italy, Stefano Scarpa, Their two daughters are, on the far right, Nuala (12) and on the horse Sofia (4). Middle back is Akram Ibrahim who came (...)
to England as a refugee, after suffering torture at the hands of the Sudanese government, by boat and overland via Libya and France and is now living legally with the family. On holiday with the family are Stefano's niece, Lucia and nephew, Marco. London, England. 2016. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos