On the day before Christmas Eve, I boarded the night bus from Brindisi to Sicily to start out on a new project that in many ways sums up the phenomenon that characterised 2014: the massive migration of persons fleeing manmade environmental and political disasters in the Mediterranean basis, Mesopotamia and Asia. Starting with the Syrian refugee crisis in January of this year in Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan, I documented the plight of the millions of Syrian civilians forced to live a hardscrabble existence in the parks and underpasses of Istanbul, the fields of the Bekaa Valley and the mud empires of northern Iraq and Jordan. In September, I moved to Iraq to turn my camera on the more than two million Iraqis displaced in their own country only since the start of this year by fighting between the government and ISIS. Now, I will spend the last hours of the year travelling across Italy from Catania in the South to Merano in the North, alongside Italians travelling to rejoin their families for Christmas and migrants who have managed to reach European ground. You can follow this project, Seasonal Migrations, here, on Iason Photography, and on a dedicated page, Parallel Journeys - Seasons of Migration.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 13:54:13 +0000
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