Contemporary Issues, 2nd prize
In the Same Boat
Francesco Zizola
Médecins Sans Frontières
Médecins Sans Frontières
26 August, 2015
Some 95 refugees on board a rubber dinghy, in international waters off the Libyan coast, await rescue after sending out a distress call.
For some years, refugees have been crossing the strait in the Mediterranean Sea between Libya and Italy, often in unseaworthy vessels. The passage is longer and more dangerous than at more recent crossing points, between Turkey and Greece. Nearly 140,000 people reached Italian soil from Libya in 2015, but more than 2,800 drowned while trying to make the crossing. Search and rescue operations are carried out in the region by a number of bodies, such as the international medical relief organization Médecins Sans Frontières.
Francesco Zizola
Born in 1962, since 1980's he has documented the world's major conflicts and their hidden crisis, focusing on the social and humanitarian issues that define life in the developin...
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