Le Journal de la Photographie

Orestiada - Greece Shearyar, 21 years old, wants to join his brother in the Netherlands. From Northern Greece, he tries to get to Athens.

Zmâla : Libre Arbitre Orestiada - Greece Shearyar, 21 years old, wants to join his brother in the Netherlands. From Northern Greece, he tries to get to Athens. Zmâla : Libre Arbitre Orestiada - Greece After the rain, an African migrant quenches his thirst. Zmâla : Libre Arbitre Patras – Greece An Afghan migrant nicknamed « Rambo » tries to get into the port’s international zone to take a ferry to Italy. Zmâla : Libre Arbitre Patras - Greece A migrant sleeps at the foot of a freight car, right across the port. Zmâla : Libre Arbitre Patras - Greece The illegal migrants try to enter Italy, hidden in containers or under the trucks’ trailers. They hope to embark for Bari, Ancona or Venice, either to stay there, either to be able to « freely » enter the neighbouring European countries. Zmâla : Libre Arbitre Patras - Greece A break between two ferries. Zmâla : Libre Arbitre Patras – Greece Patras, an important port of Western Greece where 500 to 900 trucks pass through each day on their way to Italy, has become a center of illegal immigration. The migrants relentlessly try their luck. Zmâla : Libre Arbitre Patras - Greece At night, after having had their dinner by flashlight, migrants go to sleep right across the port, on the ground. Zmâla : Libre Arbitre Paris - France Hemed 26 years old, a Tunisian migrant, camps in the Buttes-Chaumon park since 5 months: “I wanted to come to France since a long time. Here you are free and you can succeed in life.” Zmâla : Libre Arbitre Paris - France In a public garden in the 19th arrondissement, bordering the ring road, live Tunisian immigrants. All reached France via the island of Lampedusa, with the hope of finding a better life.