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Hard Copy: VQR – Portraits and boat rescues from the Mediterranean Sea – Images by Jason Florio

Part of the power of these portraits lies in context, in learning who the migrants are, and how, amid such wretched circumstances, a democratic mix of citizens emerges—a melting pot of nationalities and ethnicities, of classes and educations. “It was surreal to see these women in their delicate scarves and fancy handbags,” Florio recalls.Continue reading “Hard Copy: VQR – Portraits and boat rescues from the Mediterranean Sea – Images by Jason Florio”

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Wednesday Photo: Bangladeshi and Pakistani migrants in the lower decks of an overcrowded people-smuggling fishing boat

‘In the fetid bowels the last of an estimated 200 people that were below deck on a fishing boat carrying 416, wait for the rescue team to evacuate them. Many of them were Bangladeshis, who had lived in Libya as skilled guest workers until the security situation made it untenable to remain, forcing themContinue reading “Wednesday Photo: Bangladeshi and Pakistani migrants in the lower decks of an overcrowded people-smuggling fishing boat”

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Youtube: The Lives You Saved – 11,685 – Migrant Offshore Aid Station

Beautiful edit, Zane Dedlow and Dale Gillett – with footage by Jason Florio – for MOAS_EU

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PRESS: The families migrants leave behind – IRIN

Whilst on the MOAS (Migrant Offshore Aid Station) Phoenix, documenting the migrant and refugee boat rescues in the Mediterranean, off the Libyan coast, a couple of months ago, Florio, met a young man, Lamin, from The Gambia, West Africa; a country which we had, at that point, been living in full time for overContinue reading “PRESS: The families migrants leave behind – IRIN”