Fragile silhouettes on the horizon emerge in excess of the English Channel. This is 1 of the thirty photos of Sameer Al-Doumy on screen in Perpignan. The photographer of theAFP has been pursuing for two decades the day by day existence of migrants settled in makeshift camps about Calaiswaiting around for a hypothetical crossing to England. As a final result, a series of visuals named The streets of loss of life.
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Sameer Al-Dumy, in a refugee camp in the Calais sector. © DR
Sameer, 24, remaining Syria in 2018 fleeing the repression of the Bashar al Assad routine. In his hometown, from the age of 13, he filmed the to start with demonstrations. He gets a very good photographer and performs forAFP.
The plight of refugees from the north of France resonates with her own record. “I skilled the problem of fleeing a place when I went to Turkey ahead of moving into France”, he remembers.
“Earn their have confidence in”
The Syrian refugee, naturalized French in April, was of course intrigued in the migration crisis. “Arabic-speaking, I was equipped to get in touch quite immediately with the individuals living in the camps. And above all theAFP gave me time. My 1st 7 days on the field, I did not shoot. I desired to acquire their have confidence in. “
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A migrant in his tent in a makeshift camp close to Calais. © Sameer Al-Doumy / AFP
As it did beforehand Syriadesires Sameer “explain to stories” by means of his studies. Like that of this Iraqi father and his two daughters, 1 of whom suffers from diabetes: “They lived in a camp in the middle of the forest, in the chilly, infested with bugs, with the finest issues in acquiring insulin. “
Sameer and the staffAFP they managed to adhere to their journey until eventually they arrived on the English coast. “I desired to convey to the day-to-day daily life of migrants: the waiting, the romance with the traffickers, the fatigue, the issues for young women to clean on their own in miserable circumstances …”
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Migrants aboard the tugboat “L’Abeille Languedoc” immediately after staying rescued, adhering to a breakdown in the generator of their boat in French waters, while trying the crossing to England. © Sameer Al-Doumy / AFP
This style for storytelling was praised by the jury of the Humanitarian Visa d’or of the International Committee of the Crimson Cross. A new line in his resume. By now his perform in Syria, in jap Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus experienced gained him the initially prize in the class Location Information Stories from Photograph for the entire world press 2016.
Sameer Al Doumy will be ready to go on his function on migrants from the north of France. Freelancer forAFP to Caen due to the fact 2019 he has just been appointed by the agency and has joined the editorial workers of Lilacjust above 100 km from Calais.
Visa for the image, Perpignan, right up until 11 September.
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