Photo of the Day: Beach Life, Gunjur, The Gambia, West Africa
Press: ‘Rare photographs document the rescue of hundreds of migrants’ (by MOAS) – Foreign Policy Magazine
‘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.
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Press: Vice News – transferring boat migrants, rescued by MOAS, to HMS Bulwark – Images by Jason Florio
“Some of them were a little bit nervous when they saw the HMS Bulwark show up on the horizon,” Florio said from aboard the organization’s 130-foot ship, the Phoenix. “But I think they were just thankful they weren’t floating around in a rubber dinghy anymore.” Jason Florio. MOAS, 2015 migrant rescues, on-board photographer, talks about transferring migrants, rescued by MOAS, to HMS Bulwark. Read more, and see more of Florio’s images, on the VICE News website.
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