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Photographing Europe’s Migrant Crisis, Year After Year

After witnessing the dangerous journey of migrants traveling from the Arab Spring to Italy in 2011, the photographer Guilio Piscitelli spent the next four years chronicling the refugee crisis.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/18/photographing-europes-migrant-crisis-year-after-year/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog

When the engine of the leaky fishing vessel spluttered and died, the Italian photographer Guilio Piscitelli had been on the boat crowded with migrants for more than 28 hours. Behind them were wars and revolutions. Ahead was the Italian island of Lampedusa, and the promise of a safer life in Europe.

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