Diana Markosian Wolfsburg Germany. 2017. “At the time of this photo, I was in Germany, working on a story about refugees who were learning to swim as a way of coping with trauma. The refugees I met had come from a
(...) ll walks of life as part of the migration wave: Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq. Most of them hadn’t seen water before their journey. When I met them here, it was one year since they had been rescued from the seas, and they were learning how to swim in this pool. For a lot of these kids, water was associated with death. I started to document their time in the pool. This image captures a rare moment of them playing in a place once associated with fear.” - Diana Markosian © Diana Markosian | Magnum Photos
