“The New Europeans”: A More Subtle Migrant ExodusReading The Pictures

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“The New Europeans”: A More Subtle Migrant Exodus

This photo of migrant children at the Gevgelia camp on the Macedonia/Greece border uniquely captures the more daily highs and lows of this historic period.

via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2015/10/the-new-europeans/

I imagine the hopeful and forward-looking tone, filled with casual, friendly and quietly-poignant moments, comes from the fact Ashley Gilbertson was photographing the migrant crisis on assignment for UNICEF