Press: ‘Rare photographs document the rescue of hundreds of migrants’ (by MOAS) – Foreign Policy Magazine

Posted byJason Florio & Helen Jones-FlorioPosted inJASON FLORIO PHOTOGRAPHY, PHOTOJOURNALISM, YOUTUBETags:, , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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‘For the media, it can be a difficult story to cover. Drownings in remote ocean locales are not places that reporters and photographers can reach easily or rapidly. All too often, the boats they seek to find are lost to the depths before anyone can arrive. So the images the world sees of the migrant crisis are usually those of survivors being led ashore from rescue vessels. Rarely do we see the moment rescuers reach migrants in open waters.

That’s what makes these images so remarkable…’  Read the full feature in Foreign Policy here.

All images © MOAS_EU/Jason Florio, 2015. All rights reserved.

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Published by Jason Florio & Helen Jones-Florio

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