Immigrants portraits story


  • Photographer
    Yannis Kolesidis
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    EPA
  • Date of Photograph
    19/10 until 12/24/2009

01. Raim Naim 25, immigrant from Afganistan, squats next to a broken window in an abandoned building in the capital of the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos, near the sea border line with Turkey, October 19, 2009. 02. An unidentified woman covers her face with a plastic bag to protect herself from the cold as sits on a Greek coastguard ship after her arrest, together with 45 other illegal immigrants on the Aegean Sea off the eastern Greek island of Lesvos, near the sea border line with Turkey, October 17, 2009. 03. Immigrants from Afganistan eat in an abandoned fishing boat they are inhabiting at a boat-yard in the town of Patra, about 210km (130 miles) west of Athens, November 30, 2009. 04. Tzan Taher 23, immigrant from Afganistan, finds shelter behind a huge advertising billboard in the town of Patra, about 210 km (130 miles) west of Athens, December 4, 2009. 05. Ramazan Azghary 32, immigrant from Afganistan, covers his body with a plastic bag to protect himself from the rain as hi squatses by a road near Patras' port, about 210 km (130 miles) west of Athens, waiting for an chance to sneak into a track which will transport him to Italy, December 17, 2009. Greece is struggling to cope with the swelling number of migrants, most of whom arrive by boat via Turkey seeking a better life in Europe. About 14.000 migrants arrived by boat in Greece in the first half of 2009.

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