Lens Inside a Refugee Camp: Glimpse 8

Last night’s shift at the refugee camp in Lesvos Greece started off with a tense energy in the air. It was raw, cold and windy. Everything was wet from the endless rain throughout the day. It was right before dinner, so people were hungry and the line for getting…

I want to feel this.

Yesterday afternoon, without realizing why, I found and reread a speech that Vice President Biden gave in Shanksville, Pennsylvania in 2012. It was on September 11th, and he was speaking to the families of the victims of Flight 93 — the plane that crashed before reaching its intended target.

Lens Inside a Refugee Camp: Glimpse 1

On March 7th, I completed my first shift volunteering at Camp Moria, a temporary home to thousands of refugees in Lesvos, Greece. The refugees come from many countries including Syria, Somalia, Palestine, Sudan, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt and beyond. All have well…

When traumatic content needs to be shared

At Eyewitness Media Hub we’ve researched, written and thought a lot about graphic imagery and its use in social media. We’re concerned about the trauma it can cause, about the impact a video or a photograph captured, published and shared in the social media…

Lens Inside a Refugee Camp: Glimpse 6

In my previous post, I described the harrowing evening the refugees crossing the sea in dangerously overcrowded boats experienced and the trauma they endured that left them void of expression. Their faces were just blank, as if the effects of the epic storm had…

Lens Inside a Refugee Camp: Glimpse 11

Last night at the refugee camp was by far the coldest evening since I arrived. The temperature hit 38 degrees Fahrenheit and when you breathed out, the water vapor in your breath created a large, visible cloud that expanded across the grim concrete landscape of…