Greece: Thousands of Migrants, Refugees Trapped After Influx

He was among thousands stranded at a squalid encampment there since officials in Macedonia, the focus of Issa’s gaze, had closed the crossing before his family could soldier on the well-trodden path through the Balkans into Western Europe and Scandinavia. When Issa climbed down, he met the photographer Angelos Tzortzinis. “He sees the future on the tree,” Tzortzinis recalls.