In Search of the European Dream
Migration to Europe has increased over the past years, mainly because of political and social turmoil in the Middle East. During the recent years, Greece has been the path for thousands refugees and migrants for their crossing from Turkey to Greece and other European countries. The main places of entrance are the islands of Kos and Lesbos by sea. Greek government, in an effort to minimize the wave of refugees entering the country has built an 8-mile long and 8-feet high barbed-wire wall at the main entrance point at its north eastern borderline with Turkey. This caused a huge wave of refugees and migrants trying to enter the country by the Aegean Sea. For many, it is their first encounter with the sea. Hundreds have lost their lives in their attempt to reach the European Union, man hoping to reunite with long-lost friends and family. At the time I write this text, millions of refugees and migrants wait in Turkey to cross the sea border for a better life.
2nd Prize : Andrea and Magda,, Italy & France
Sinai Park
3rd Prize : Andrew Burton, USA
Baltimore Uprising
Angelos Tzortzinis has spent the last 5 years, focusing his work on the immigration issue in Greece, traveling across the Greek land and sea borders but also documenting the immigrants’ lives in Athens and their efforts to leave a country undergoing a severe economic crisis. Tzortzinis work have been published and exhibited internationally.
http://www.angelos-tzortzinis.com
EXHIBITION
Sony World Photography Awards 2016
From 22 April to 8 May 2016
Somerset House
Strand, London WC2R 1LA
United Kingdom
https://www.somersethouse.org.uk
http://www.worldphoto.org/2016exhibition
