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Jérôme Sessini A makeshift shop/ coffee in the jungle. Calais, France. January 20, 2016. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini The 'Jungle', the shantytown near Calais city, where migrants live while attempting to enter the United Kingdom. September 17, 2015. Calais, France. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini | The Calais Jungle Clashes between migrants and police. Calais, France. November 25, 2015. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini FRANCE. Calais. December 8, 2015. Blood stain on the canvas of a makeshift tent on the crime scene where a Sudanese migrant was stabbed to death by another migrant. The migrants who lives in the (...)
Jérôme Sessini FRANCE. Calais. January 19, 2016.
The new installation with containers.The migrants are invited to move from the tents to go into the containers and the facilities that have been fitted. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini A 13 year old Egyptian migrant who traveled alone to Europe. Calais, France. December 7, 2015. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini The refugee camp near Dunkirk in Grande-Synthe, which accommodates over 2,500 refugees at the moment, mostly consisting of families from Kurdistan. January 20, 2016. Grande-Synthe, France. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini People from the collective 'Angry Calaisiens'. The group of neighbours is protesting against the troubles and the insecurity caused by the presence of the camp that grew up extensively few meters f (...)
Jérôme Sessini Anti-Riot police (CRS) escorting the scientific police leave the crime scene where a Sudanese migrant was stabbed to death by another migrant. Calais, France. December 8, 2015. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini FRANCE. Calais. Portraits of Syrian refugees recently arrived in Calais. 2015. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini | The Calais Jungle Migrants from Afghanistan burn tents. Calais, France. January 19, 2016. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini A pitta bread taped on the window of a makeshift shop in the jungle. Calais, France. January 20, 2016. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini French authorities have started to clean up the Jungle of Calais, the migrants have been asked to keep an 100 meters buffer zone in between the highway and the camp. Calais, France. January 20, 2016. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini Details of migrants' personal belongings and trash caught in the ice. Calais, France. January 20, 2016. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini A migrant protects himself from the rain with a garbage bag. The migrants who lives in the 'Jungle' of Calais are a mix of refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants from Darfur, Afghanistan, (...)