Close to 75,000 refugees are still living in a state of limbo between the Balkans and Greece, unable to enter the EU due to reinforced border control. Their living conditions…
Close to 75,000 refugees are still living in a state of limbo between the Balkans and Greece, unable to enter the EU due to reinforced border control. Their living conditions are often deplorable, their prospects bleak. “Around 1000 on these refugees are sleeping rough in abandoned warehouses, train wagons and shacks in the central station of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia” reveal Danish photographers Ulrik Hasemann and Mathias Svold, discussing the focus of their project The Lost Boys of Belgrade.
Their migration farther west impeded, they are left living in the cold, dark spaces of what was only supposed to be a transit point, but is now an unintended destination.
Photographers Ulrik Hasemann and Mathias Svold traveled to Serbia to examine the living conditions of the migrants and refugees mentioned above. They wanted to give as much of a sense of what it is like for those living at the train station. Instead of taking a traditional approach of merely documenting those conditions, they decided to use a more poetic, less linear and more impressionistic approach in an effort to transport the viewer into the reality these people face every day
