Patrick Zachmann On the road at night, a small family of illegal immigrants which fled the Taliban, has succeeded to cross the Aegean sea from the Turkish border and reached Lesbos. They are happy to be in Europe b (...)
ut they don't understand why the police don't take them to a refugee camp. A police car just stopped, talked to them and left. They don't realize yet that they will have to go through an overcrowded detention center, and then will have one month to leave the country. Island of Lesbos, next to the Turkish border, Greece. September, 2009. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak Refugees, mostly from Syria and Afghanistan walk unhindered through a gap in the Hungarian border fence on a defective railway line but are collected for processing by Hungarian authorities. Those (...)
who want to avoid processing climb over the fence and try to move North without being caught by Hungarian police. Near Röszke/Szeged, Hungarian-Serbian border, Hungary. September 2015. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
Paolo Pellegrin Wooden boats are seen after the evacuation of migrants. The members from the MSF ship, Bourbon Argos removed the boats’ engines and spray-painted messages on the decks saying that a rescue had bee (...)
n conducted. Cast adrift, the boats would later be destroyed by patrolling European naval vessels to prevent smugglers from reusing them. Mediterranean Sea. 2015. © Paolo Pellegrin | Magnum Photos
Paolo Pellegrin Eritrean migrants are seen in their boat as they are about to be rescued by MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières). The MSF-hired ship, named 'Bourbon Argos', was patrolling the waters off of Libya when it (...)
encountered two wooden boats carrying a total of nearly 700 migrants, according to MSF. The migrants reported that a third boat left Libya with them, but it could not be located by MSF. It was reported to have been rescued the following day by an Irish ship, with casualties. Approximately 10-15 nautical miles off the Libyan coast, Mediterranean Sea. July 27, 2015. © Paolo Pellegrin | Magnum Photos