http://www.refugeproject.co/refuge-mkf daily 0.75 2016-05-26 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/t/57471e79b09f95a5a9d3c1c7/1464124486162/ "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo Welcome, Welcome. Lesvos, Greece | 39.2645° N, 26.2777° E Standing on the beach in the long dawn, we saw familiar sights and new faces, desperate and desperately happy to be on foreign shores. Volunteers helped families from the boats, and a father, son in arms, took his first heavy steps towards a warm welcome and the long road ahead. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/5744be46f699bb5072d2070b/1464124486162/Welcome%2C+Welcome+-+MKF.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo Welcome, Welcome. Lesvos, Greece | 39.2645° N, 26.2777° E Standing on the beach in the long dawn, we saw familiar sights and new faces, desperate and desperately happy to be on foreign shores. Volunteers helped families from the boats, and a father, son in arms, took his first heavy steps towards a warm welcome and the long road ahead. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/5744d8b860b5e901aa56be50/1464129724018/MKF+SYNOPSIS+-+FINAL.png "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/5744be4cf699bb5072d20738/1464124476809/Marzieh%E2%80%99s+Story+-+MKF.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo Marzieh’s Story. Victoria Square, Athens | 37.9930° N, 23.7305° E When the family was detained at the border, they were separated for nearly 30 days in different camps without contact. As her father's condition deteriorated, he was shipped back to Kabul by Turkish authorities, leaving his wife, daughters, and the rest of his family in the dark, on the Turkish border. Marzieh hasn't spoken with or heard from her father since. This was two weeks ago. She left us with these simple parting words: "Tell them we are humans, too. Because so many treat us as animals." https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/5744be48c6fc08b3af1b0e71/1464124469574/To+Victoria+Square+-+MKF.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo To Victoria Square. Piraeus Metro Line, Athens | 37.9930° N, 23.7305° E On the metro from Piraeus Port, just minutes after setting foot in mainland Europe for the first time in her long journey from Afghanistan, a young girl watches the scenery rumble past, and she waits. Uncertainty is the commodity of the refugee in transit, and yet with seemingly endless grace, so many stayed curious and brave on their journey. And we were left in quiet reverence in their wake. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/5744be44c6fc08b3af1b0e49/1464124459168/Yarra%27s+Story+-+MKF.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo Yarra's Story. Mória Refugee Camp, Lesvos | 39.1333° N, 26.5166° E Settling in for the long dark, Yarra and her family of nearly 15 do their best to stay warm as temperatures drop across Europe. It’s one of those beautiful anomalies of youth that children can enjoy themselves even in dire situations - and indeed, Yarra even seemed to be having fun. Racing to collect anything that would burn in a crowded camp that had already been stripped bare, Yarra made survival a game, and in that, she was winning. Only moments after sharing her family's fire, she offered us food we couldn't accept, and asked us in excited, simple English, "Where are you from?" Compassion runs deep here in a people who would offer everything, when they have so little of their own. And even as we moved on through the camp late into the night, finding new stories and new faces, we would catch glimpses of Yarra, hurrying from campfire to campfire, like a dream. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/5744be569f7266e566198117/1464124450963/Hamad%27s+Story+-+MKF.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo Hamad’s Story. Kara Tepe Camp, Lesvos | 39.1287 ° N, 26.5446 ° E Possessed of a grace that transcended language, Hamad is a man of simple desires. Born with a degenerative muscle condition, he’d been wheelchair-bound for the last four years - but was still fiercely determined to find a better life away from bombs and death. Setting out on his own across countries and continents, he made it to Ismir on the coast of Turkey. Given the choice between leaving his wheelchair, or being left behind, Hamad climbed aboard the raft on his hands and knees. After three hours of prayers and the hum of the engines, Hamad found himself lifted out of the boat, and onto European soil. Days later, we met him here at the Kara Tepe Center for Refugees, preparing for the next stage of his journey to Athens. And the UNHCR had managed to find him a new wheelchair. He said it wasn’t as nice as his old one, but he wasn’t picky. Hamad has embarked on the most difficult journey of his life for the distant hope that abroad he’ll find a better one. He explained: “In Syria, I was nothing. I have so much to offer the world, I just need the chance to prove it.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/5744be5a9f7266e566198143/1464124442336/Ghoson%27s+Story%2C+Part+I+-+MKF.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo Ghoson’s Story, Part I Leros Refugee Camp, Greece | 37.1306° N, 26.8499° E Ghoson lives for her two young daughters. Alone, they made the long journey from Damascus - and here in her hands she holds the official Missing Persons Report from the day her husband disappeared. With no answers, and no help, Ghoson fought for more than two years to find any sign of her missing husband, a conscripted soldier in Assad’s army, but with money running out, and the war closing in all around her, she made the impossible choice to flee her home and offer her children a future - at the cost of putting her husband forever in her past. Ghoson broke quietly into tears as she recounted the thirteen names of friends and family members killed in the last two years in the violence in Syria. But even amidst all this unspeakable loss, she has hope for a better life: "I live for my daughters, I know that there is more for us out there, that there is a safe place that waits for us all." And I believe there is. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/5744be574d088e81d1515526/1464124432615/Ghoson%27s+Story%2C+Part+II+-+MKF.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo Ghoson’s Story, Part II Leros Refugee Camp, Greece | 37.1306° N, 26.8499° E Ghoson lives for her two young daughters. Alone, they made the long journey from Damascus - and here in her hands she holds the official Missing Persons Report from the day her husband disappeared. With no answers, and no help, Ghoson fought for more than two years to find any sign of her missing husband, a conscripted soldier in Assad’s army, but with money running out, and the war closing in all around her, she made the impossible choice to flee her home and offer her children a future - at the cost of putting her husband forever in her past. Ghoson broke quietly into tears as she recounted the thirteen names of friends and family members killed in the last two years in the violence in Syria. But even amidst all this unspeakable loss, she has hope for a better life: "I live for my daughters, I know that there is more for us out there, that there is a safe place that waits for us all." And I believe there is. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/5744be4af699bb5072d20719/1464124424058/Reem%27s+Story+-+MKF.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo Reem's Story. Eleonas Refugee Camp, Athens | 37.9828° N, 23.698944° E Nearly 9 months pregnant, Reem is 21 years old, and full of light. She and her husband fled Syria at the height of the conflict, struggling to make it west. After months in Turkey, her husband was accused of smuggling after he attempted to make the crossing to Europe. That was nearly 4 months ago. Now, the only thing Reem wants is to have her husband back before her baby is born. After sharing her story, she smiles - she will name her child Maria. And she hopes that one day, Maria will see a Syria without war. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/5744be519f7266e5661980e3/1464124412995/January%27s+Child+-+MKF.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo January’s Child. Leros Refugee Camp, Greece | 37.1305° N, 26.8497° E Three generations of Syrian women sit and stand before me, and it’s the youngest that seems to command the wind. Catching sunlight, she stares back, challenging. And as I spoke with her mother and grandmother, and learned about their travels and the waiting game they now found themselves playing for keeps, she continued to watch us, the wind whipping through the camp, sending stray laundry eddying around her like loyal subjects. We’d found a curious one. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/5744be4ec6fc08b3af1b0eab/1464124562603/Legacy%2C+or%2C+The+Sprawl+-+MKF.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo Legacy, or, The Sprawl. Lesvos Municipal Dump, Greece | 39.1980° N, 26.2952° E Children play wherever they find themselves. Astride mountains of all kinds, chasing dragons with many meanings. And we’re reminded that hope and safety and wishful thinking all have to go somewhere. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/5744be524d088e81d1515518/1464124624363/In+the+Middle+of+the+Storm%2C+A+Light+-+MKF.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo In The Middle of The Storm, A Light Moria Refugee Camp, Lesvos | 39.1333° N, 26.5166° E A young girl watches me from Home 25 as I make my way through the storm. In heavy sheets the rain came down, and in the closed corridor of UN shelters, a door stood open, lights on. There in the yawning doorway, curious eyes watched as I made my way through ankle-deep mud on my way through Mória Refugee Camp looking for the rest of our team. And as I stopped briefly to make this picture, half-blind in the storm, this young girl stared back. A lighthouse, fascinated and unafraid. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/5744be44f699bb5072d206e0/1464124712905/Zaina%2C+Patiently+Awaiting+-+MKF.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo Zaina, Patiently Awaiting Eleonas Refugee Camp, Athens | 37.9827° N, 23.6988° E A Farsi-speaking Afghan tomboy, Zaina was all quiet energy and bright eyes. And in the last light of our final day, all she could seem to see or talk about was the future that lay ahead. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/5744be4bc6fc08b3af1b0e7a/1464124774467/Redwan%27s+Story+-+MKF.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo Redwan's Story Leros Refugee Camp, Greece | 37.1305° N, 26.8497° E Redwan and his two sons are looking for a better life. Away from the missile strikes that destroyed their home, and the Regime that imprisoned Redwan for months without trial or sentence. When I asked him, simply, what was the hardest part about leaving his homeland behind, Redwan said that it was telling his boys, Mohammed (right) and Abdul-Rahman (left), that they might not ever see their Syria again. And even as he explained this to me, Mohammed, his eldest, began to softly cry, mourning the loss of his home, his homeland, and everything he has ever known. Redwan is seeking political asylum in the west, looking only for the opportunity to get his son's an education, to work hard, and, as he explained: "to actually live again, without bombs and death and hate." https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/5744be5c9f7266e56619814f/1464124825800/Brothers+-+MKF.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo Brothers Leros Refugee Camp, Greece | 37.1305° N, 26.8497° E Muhammad and Abdul-Rahman, 12 and 10 respectively, reminded me of my own brother in so many ways - from their physicality right down to the way they acted, these were just kids caught up in something larger than themselves. As we photographed their father, the boys played in the other room of the abandoned school we'd found as our studio for the day. During our interview, what stuck with me most, even now as I write this caption months later, was Abdul-Rahman's embarrassed admission that one of the things he really missed about home, was his toys. That even as his elder brother held back tears at the thought of never seeing Syria again, for Abdul-Rahman, the reality hadn't fully set in. And that simple distinction was born of the resiliency of youth. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/5744be4f4d088e81d15154e5/1464124880926/Landings+-+MKF.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo Landings Mytilini, Lesvos, Greece | 39.2645° N, 26.2777° E The first boats begin landing before dawn. Sometime around five in the morning, long before the light, families touchdown on Greek shores after a journey through the long dark. Here, at just after dawn, a group makes the voyage. Distances are deceiving at sea, and even with the Turkish Coast so visible in the distance, it's no simple crossing. Over three hours in nearly-freezing weather, on a zodiac made for short-range travel, refugees arrive traumatized and shaken. Seen here with effectively a 600mm lens, a boat well over 2-miles away prepares for the final stretch. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/5744be5b4d088e81d151555c/1464125005898/Color+%26+Cold+-+MKF.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo Color & Cold Moria Refugee Camp, Lesvos | 39.1333° N, 26.5166° E Ahmad, just 16 and with something of James Dean about him, explains in near-perfect English (as learned from watching Hollywood movies, no less) that leaving your entire life behind is hard, but it's harder still when you're responsible for two younger siblings, your mother, and a babe-in-arms. After losing his father first to Assad's conscriptions, and then a stray rocket blast on the front lines, Ahmad feels he must bear the burden of getting his family West. We sit at his temporary campfire of cardboard and trash, and he doesn't complain, not even once - he just shares his story, because he's finally found someone who will listen. And for people like Ahmad, people in his position, that means a great deal. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/56f781a990634097447d3d35/1464125887372/No+One-02406.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo Manifesto Mória Refugee Camp, Lesvos | 39.1333° N, 26.5166° E Outside the walls of the Moria Refugee Camp in Lesvos, Greece, the concrete bears slogans in five languages, all fluorescent light, cheap spray paint, and thinly-veiled frustration. Inside, families just try to stay warm through the night. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/56f777c7ab48de2c7c198b38/1464125522054/Her+Look+-+Beach+Story-01488.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo Arrivals, Part 1 Lesvos, Greece | 39.2645° N, 26.2777° E It's not all joy. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/56f7778bac962c8475201c4b/1464126053856/Piraeous+Landing-00846.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo Dawn at Piraeus Piraeus Port, Greece | 37.9406° N, 23.6333° E Families make their way from the maws of the massive ferry like an exodus from the ark, they arrive at dawn, ready for another bus, another train or car, to continue their journey west. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/56f99c019f726662931ff062/1464126107367/Hundred+in+the+Hands-.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo The Hundred in the Hands Mória Refugee Camp, Lesvos | 39.1333° N, 26.5166° E Huddled close around the burning pallets and cardboard, a teenager from Damascus recalls his journey across the Aegean Sea. The refugee camps across Greece are full of stories just like these, of videos of their travels and the people who've made the crossing. Without fail, every person we spoke to explained that the hardest part of their journey, was their time in "the boat." Hardly more than a raft, overcrowded beyond all possible safe limits, these rubber boats make a three plus hour crossing through winter waters with families who have left every single thing they own behind on the opposite shores. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/56f99b9f22482e3ec1ecd1a5/1464128946448/At+The+Fire-02252.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo By Fire's Light Mória Refugee Camp, Lesvos | 39.1333° N, 26.5166° E Families do their best to stay warm as winter settles over the Aegean, and temperatures in the camps plummet. Yet for the children, life remains, at times, innocent - as campfires become adventures, wood-gathering a pastime, and staying warm a vital game. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/56f99bbf0442623530354942/1464278649394/Zahra%27s+Story+-+Landscape-00481.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo Zahra's Story | Eleonas Refugee Camp, Athens Eleonas Refugee Camp, Athens | 37.9828° N, 23.698944° E With her two daughters in her arms, Zahra shared her story. "I felt, that at that moment, the only thing left to do was to die." When her husband was taken by the government, they didn't tell her why - she only found out months later that it was for political reasons. Raising her eldest, Sumeneh, who is partially blind in both eyes, Zahra became pregnant with Suraiya while visiting her husband in prison. Alone on the outside, with war on her borders, Zahra received a typewritten letter one day informally her quite simply, that her husband had died in prison. Widowed with two children at the age of 25, Zahra summoned all the strength she had left, and left to seek a better life. Braving thousands of miles by land, and open seas, Zahra explained that she drew strength from her daughters. "They are my world, and my light." Suraiya, who is epileptic, needs simple medication that is easily found in the west, and Zahra has been told there's a clinic in Germany capable of treating Sumeneh's blindness - this is what keeps her going. And through her tears, there was a smile, because Zahra believes more than anything that they will make it. Shortly after hearing Zahra's story, we recounted it to a team from the BBC working with Doctors Without Borders. They've picked up her case, and hopefully she will finally reach that clinic, and that better life she has been dreaming of for so long. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/56fc4d44e707eb954cdaae51/1459393725991/Top+of+the+Pile-02889.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo Legacy. Or, The Sprawl | Lesvos Municipal Dump // It's all got to go somewhere. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/56f99bf722482e3ec1ecd682/1464278649447/The+Sprawl-02911.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo Water & Soul Lesvos Municipal Dump, Greece | 39.1980° N, 26.2952° E A thousand life jackets, a thousand new lives. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/56fc4d233d931ede8895309f/1459207457653/Top+of+the+Pile-02889.jpg "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f76f4fb6aa60a67ecd43fa/56f770f4b73abe8dcc2d8929/1459058520932/ "Refuge." Matthew K. Firpo http://www.refugeproject.co/at-the-gates-er daily 0.75 2016-05-24 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/t/5744dc872b8dde5ac76e1285/1459614113091/ "At The Gate." Elliot Ross https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/56fee0f6859fd00b1724e78d/1459614113091/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_02.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/56f99b5e04426235303545e8/1459440748355/160106_Eleonas_Reem_01_02.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross Reem 21 years old Eleonas Camp, Athens Reem of Al-Raqqah, Syria lost her husband to imprisonment during their dash to Europe. Traveling ahead to secure maternity doctors in Europe, Reem’s husband was arrested on the border with Denmark on false suspicion of human smuggling. He is now being held in Korydallos- Athens’s most infamous prison. With her due date past, each day brings mounting fear and anxiety as Reem is beginning to face the reality of childbirth alone in a foreign land. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/56fee0fcc6fc0804b2d8934b/1464130692134/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_03.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/56fee0fc859fd00b1724e7b6/1464130692119/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_04.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/56fee102c6fc0804b2d8936f/1464130692134/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_05.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/56fee102859fd00b1724e7eb/1464130692188/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_06.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/56f99b5ed51cd48498e27e0f/1459440870560/160110_KaraTepe_AhmedJohnMisto_03.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross Ahmed “John Misto” 21 years old Kara Tepe Camp, Lesvos Ahmed quickly distinguished himself from the others with his sharp, American accented English that he says he picked up watching countless WWE fights and his obsession with American culture. Originally from Hama, Syria, Ahmed was living and working in Saudi Arabia for the last number of years. Quick to rant, he was outspoken about his political and ideological beliefs, which ironically, were staunchly anti-American. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/5744dba8b654f9210cbcf679/1464130692206/ER+SYNOPSIS+-+-+FINAL.png "At The Gate." Elliot Ross https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/56fee0f6c6fc0804b2d89327/1464130692210/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_01.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/56fee108c6fc0804b2d89399/1464130692247/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_07.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/56fee108859fd00b1724e827/1464130692267/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_08.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/56fee10dc6fc0804b2d893ca/1464130692351/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_09.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/56f8059c2fe131661ce7a609/1459394479509/160104_Refuge_ElliotRoss_0064.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/56fee10e7c65e4d9c93d1b3e/1464130692341/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_10.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/56fee1137c65e4d9c93d1b6f/1464130692392/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_11.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/56fee114c6fc0804b2d893f3/1464130692510/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_12.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/56fee1177c65e4d9c93d1b9c/1464130692454/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_13.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/56f8059c2fe131661ce7a608/1459094945083/160104_Refuge_ElliotRoss_0062.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/56fee119c6fc0804b2d8942a/1464130692548/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_14.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/56fee11c7c65e4d9c93d1bc8/1464130692682/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_15.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/56fee11ec6fc0804b2d8944c/1464130692688/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_16.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/56feea2d59827e40c95c8717/1464130692751/AtTheGate_webpage_PT2.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d4cab48dea5ac9e448f/1464130692800/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_01.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross Framed by the black of a cell phone, Muhammad Hasan, Mohammad Sabagh, another Mohammad Sabagh and Wael al-Sekkary stand in the early morning hours on Turkish soil, about to embark on the part of the trip they feared most. Prior to them, the Aegean had already claimed the lives of nearly four-thousand other refugees. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d4c7c65e46532eb0aeb/1464130692860/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_02.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross Arriving into Lesvos by air reveals a coastline ringed with orange life vests, discarded by the many tens of thousands who have already landed on these shores. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d4eab48dea5ac9e4496/1464130692931/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_03.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross Sunrise reveals a small rubber dinghy, dwarfed by a passing ferry, making its dash to Lesvos, Greece with 28 people aboard. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d51ab48dea5ac9e44ce/1464130693018/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_04.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross In a moment of panic, a man miscalculated the distance to shore and leapt from the raft despite protests from the others. To the right of the dinghy, he struggles to stay afloat in the offshore current. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d517c65e46532eb0b24/1464130693135/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_05.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross With weather on their side, a decent motor and less people than other boats, these refugees, mostly Syrian, complete their sea crossing in just under four hours. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d55ab48dea5ac9e44fe/1464130693137/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_06.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross Clutching a cane, an elderly woman is helped off the boat by one of the dozens of volunteers waiting on the shores of Lesvos for incoming rafts. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d587c65e46532eb0b61/1464130693267/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_07.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross On this early winter morning in January, a volunteer wraps a young boy in an effort to fight off hypothermia. Spray kicked up by the strong gusts on the Aegean soaked people in every boat that made landfall that morning. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d5807eaa0f67ed160f8/1464130693259/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_08.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross Two sisters stare absently ahead, in shock after what others on the boat described as a horrific passage. One passenger estimated it took them about four hours to cross from Turkey–entirely in the dark with only cell phone lights. They aimed for the strobing light of the Mytilene airport control tower in the far distance while soaking wet and huddling for warmth. Somewhere along the way, someone shrieked as their light reveal a lifeless body floating by. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d5b7c65e46532eb0b9d/1464130693352/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_09.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross A young mother cradles her child on the shores of Lesvos at sunrise. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d5b07eaa0f67ed1613a/1464130693354/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_10.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross Hollow eyes of many refugees coming off rafts from Turkey serve as proof of the harrowing nature of the journey. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d5f7c65e46532eb0bdf/1464130693402/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_11.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross For those that cannot afford the sometimes exorbitant prices of proper life preservers (set by price-gouging opportunists), they use car tire inner tubes as a dangerous substitute. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d601d07c0dc391e4381/1464130693514/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_12.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross A landfill outside Mytilene provides a haunting visual symbol of the 856,723 people who opted to tempt fate on the Aegean in 2015. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d647c65e46532eb0c0e/1464130693613/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_13.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross Ammar holds his numbered ticket that he received upon entrance into Moria, Mytilene’s refugee camp and registration center. Once his number is called, he must wait in line, sometimes for a full day, to receive his EU registration papers.   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d661d07c0dc391e4401/1464130693630/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_14.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross Fadi Jolak and Mohammad Sabagh search the perimeter of the fortified Moria camp for any wood that can be pried off trees to burn for warmth. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d677c65e46532eb0c15/1464130693632/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_15.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross Naked trunks stand sentinel to refugees resorting to discarded clothing and blankets as fuel for their fires to stave off freezing temperatures on this wet January night inside Moria. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d6c1d07c0dc391e4455/1464130693722/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_16.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross A group of friends, all young Syrian men from Damascus, conserve what little wood they found earlier in the day as they take turns warming themselves in the radiant heat of the small campfire. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d6f7c65e46532eb0cb6/1464130693813/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_18.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross Late at night, a man stokes a few embers outside his the shelter his family was given at Moria.     https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d6c7c65e46532eb0c86/1464130693983/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_17.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross Moaz Khadem Al Jame uses his cell phone, kept alive by an external battery, sparingly a few times a day to communicate with family and friends back home–updating them on his progress north towards Germany. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d701d07c0dc391e4498/1464130693918/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_19.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross Clothes that were presumably hung to dry on the formidable fences that cordian off the registration and administration area inside Moria soak in the night’s rain. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d75ab48dea5ac9e467f/1464130693954/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_20.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross Father and son, caught in the rain inside Moria at nightfall. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d761d07c0dc391e44e5/1464130694072/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_21.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross Mohammad A. Sabagh stands for a portrait, backed by the rising smoke of clothing fires and families desperate to stay warm in the freezing mist. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d7a07eaa0f67ed1629c/1464130694073/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_22.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross A human rights observer from Belgium, keeps an eye on registration proceedings at Moria. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d7bd210b8b7926897c2/1464130694174/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_23.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross In a tender moment, a mother moves in and touches her head to her eldest daughter’s for reassurance as the girl begins to cry. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d7c07eaa0f67ed162a3/1464130694201/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_24.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross Adam, with tears streaming down his face recalling this dark chapter in his life, pulls up a photo on his phone of his back after he was captured and tortured by Bashar al-Assad’s men for a year. His crime–using his connections as a mobile phone retailer to orchestrate a covert food smuggling operation into his besieged city of Hama in 2011. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d7f07eaa0f67ed162dc/1464130694321/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_25.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross Afghan men cook bite-sized fish they caught in the nearby harbor of the small island of Leros, Greece.   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d7fd210b8b792689802/1464130694435/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_26.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross For many refugees caught in limbo, like these Algerians barred from traveling beyond Greece, it’s the mundane tasks that keep them sane. Like this man who offered to cut everyone’s hair on this sunny afternoon. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d8207eaa0f67ed162eb/1464130694569/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_27.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross Iman Miri stands in an abandoned fascist building dating back to the time Mussolini chose Leros as one of his Aegean headquarters. Despite its crumbling walls and ceilings, the building is being used by refugees as an interim home as they wait for their papers. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d843c44d843e1f0c9a1/1464130694571/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_28.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross A young Syrian girl stands in front of a pile of discarded UNHCR blankets. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d8507eaa0f67ed16319/1464130694674/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_29.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross Two girls pause amidst their play on this unusually warm January day on the island of Leros. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d8907eaa0f67ed16351/1464130694677/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_30.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross Eighteen-year-old Saboor from Kunduz Province, Afghanistan, traveled alone with his entire family’s savings. He hopes to forge a path towards asylum for them in the near future. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d891d07c0dc391e45d9/1464130694693/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_31.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross Faradj Aissa enjoys the last of the day’s light in an empty building in Leros. He will spend the night here with a blanket, a sandwich given to him by local volunteers, a bottle of water and his few belongings. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d8d1d07c0dc391e45ef/1464130694897/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_32.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross Iman Miri, papers in hand, is all smiles as he boards the ferry to Athens–one important step closer to Germany. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d8dab48dea5ac9e47ef/1464130694933/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_33.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross A family gathers themselves as they step foot off the ferry and onto mainland Europe. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f802dba3360c3a90bb8ee0/57041d921d07c0dc391e4628/1464130695023/ElliotRoss_AtTheGate_34.jpg "At The Gate." Elliot Ross In a moment of pause, a young man looks back across a sea of people boarding an Athens bound ferry. Like so many thousands before him, he leaves Leros behind and continues his determined and uncertain march towards Northern Europe in the shadow of tightening EU legislation. http://www.refugeproject.co/mothers-rb daily 0.75 2016-05-24 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/t/5744dc4bab48ded4123bee3f/1464129923125/ "Mothers." Rosanna Bach Children. Victoria Square, Athens Children play in Victoria Square, while waiting for the bus that will take them to the Macedonian border.   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f99b20044262353035433c/56f99b3707eaa0601bac1e74/1464129923125/Rosanna+Bach--0jpg.jpg "Mothers." Rosanna Bach Children. Victoria Square, Athens Children play in Victoria Square, while waiting for the bus that will take them to the Macedonian border.   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f99b20044262353035433c/5744dc3cab48ded4123bedbf/1464130624082/RHB+SYNOPSIS+-+FINAL.png "Mothers." Rosanna Bach https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f99b20044262353035433c/56f99b370442623530354448/1464129963329/Rosanna+Bach--1.jpg "Mothers." Rosanna Bach Brothers. The Villa, Leros Hamoudi and his brother play as they wait for their mother to head down from the special housing for women and children to the main camp https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f99b20044262353035433c/56f99b3a07eaa0601bac1ea8/1464129996413/Rosanna+Bach--2.jpg "Mothers." Rosanna Bach Rola Kadro. Camp Moria, Lesvos Twenty-two year old Rola is five months pregnant. She is travelling alone with her two sons. They are on their way to meet her husband who is waiting for them in Germany. Her third child will also be a boy. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f99b20044262353035433c/56fee491b09f9575907d5267/1464130033219/Rosanna+Bach--3.jpg "Mothers." Rosanna Bach Fatima. Eleonas Camp, Athens Fatima plays by herself at twilight in the only government-run refugee camp in Athens. I asked her where she was from, and where her parents were. She would goofily feed my own questions back to me. I never got one straight answer from her. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f99b20044262353035433c/56fee491746fb91d8b1ed2a7/1464130063393/Rosanna+Bach--4.jpg "Mothers." Rosanna Bach Eleonas Camp by Night. Athens The tent that was set-up as a food hall often remains empty. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f99b20044262353035433c/56f99b3a0442623530354479/1464130093750/Rosanna+Bach--6.jpg "Mothers." Rosanna Bach Syrian Girl. Victoria Square, Athens The children gather for a group shot but this little girl’s curiosity brings her closer to her new friend. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f99b20044262353035433c/56f99b3d07eaa0601bac1eb1/1464130110115/Rosanna+Bach--7.jpg "Mothers." Rosanna Bach Family Ties. Eleonas Camp, Athens Ahmed from Lebanon holds his daughter tight. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f99b20044262353035433c/56f99b4307eaa0601bac1f01/1464130180162/Rosanna+Bach--12.jpg "Mothers." Rosanna Bach Reem. Eleonas Camp, Athens Reem from Syria is nine months pregnant. She wants to name her baby girl Maria. When crossing the Danish border Reem’s husband was accused of being a Smuggler and got sent to prison in Athens. She visits him, and brings him food, waiting patiently for his release. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f99b20044262353035433c/56f99b3d0442623530354482/1464130209398/Rosanna+Bach--8.jpg "Mothers." Rosanna Bach Sisters. The Villa, Leros Sisters Sima and Sara are dressed and ready to leave “The Villa,” a special house provided exclusively for women and children to spend their nights while on the island of Leros. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f99b20044262353035433c/56f99b4007eaa0601bac1edd/1464130241113/Rosanna+Bach--9.jpg "Mothers." Rosanna Bach Hamoudi. Eleonas Camp, Athens Hamoudi from Lebanon plays in the housing provided in Eleonas Camp. The crate-like housing structures have electricity, heat, and running water. The Macedonian border has been closed to everyone but Syrian, Afghan, and Iraqi Refugees. Many Lebanese, Iranian and African refugees remain at Eleonas for longer time periods.   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f99b20044262353035433c/56f99b4004426235303544ac/1464130276766/Rosanna+Bach--10.jpg "Mothers." Rosanna Bach Zohal. Eleonas Camp, Athens Twenty-one year old Zohal is only two months pregnant. It is her second pregnancy. Zohal miscarried during her first pregnancy while she was working for five Euros a day, washing dishes in kitchens in Istanbul. She and her husband left Morocco to look for better economic opportunities. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f99b20044262353035433c/56f99b4304426235303544d9/1464130299399/Rosanna+Bach--13.jpg "Mothers." Rosanna Bach Fatima. Eleonas Camp, Athens Fatima entertains herself in the Eleonas Camp, the only government run Refugee Camp in Athens. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f99b20044262353035433c/56fca78e40261dbce6d451fe/1459398542442/ "Mothers." Rosanna Bach http://www.refugeproject.co/project-trailer daily 0.75 2016-12-16 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/t/58540d1a37c581f51a12f9cf/1481903386288/ Project Trailer. REFUGE | Official Trailer Refuge is a multimedia project chronicling human stories from the European Refugee Crisis, focused on humanity and hope. A film by Matthew K. Firpo This was made to be played loud and full screen. Executive Producer | Maximilian Guen Producers | Matteo Zevi, Haris Katsigiannis, Rosanna Bach, Matthew K. Firpo Cinematographer | Jake Saner Editor & 2nd Camera | Stephen Michael Simon Photographers | Elliot Ross, Rosanna Bach, Matthew K. Firpo Original Score | Chris Petrosino & Rob McCurdy, Noise Club Sound Design & Mix | Sean Higgins Coming June 2016. A Magna Carta Special Project | © MMXVI www.MagnaCarta.tv https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f9bf618a65e290bb279aa3/56f9bf78926173d6ea45e88e/1481903386288/Refuge+Video+Thumbnail+-+Lifejackets.jpg Project Trailer. REFUGE | Official Trailer Refuge is a multimedia project chronicling human stories from the European Refugee Crisis, focused on humanity and hope. A film by Matthew K. Firpo This was made to be played loud and full screen. Executive Producer | Maximilian Guen Producers | Matteo Zevi, Haris Katsigiannis, Rosanna Bach, Matthew K. Firpo Cinematographer | Jake Saner Editor & 2nd Camera | Stephen Michael Simon Photographers | Elliot Ross, Rosanna Bach, Matthew K. Firpo Original Score | Chris Petrosino & Rob McCurdy, Noise Club Sound Design & Mix | Sean Higgins Coming June 2016. A Magna Carta Special Project | © MMXVI www.MagnaCarta.tv https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/56f9bf618a65e290bb279aa3/56f9bf963e28e25c6037e224/1459208085169/ Project Trailer. http://www.refugeproject.co/interviews daily 0.75 2016-08-31 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5e60ed2b85742d3512ef2/1472660791582/ Testimonies. - Adam, 39 Hama, Syria https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5e7acd1758e7bcf406b53/1471539129308/ Testimonies. - Sanah, 47 Aleppo, Syria https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/5748c03e8a65e20cc7427c98/1471538380344/ Testimonies. - Sanah, 47 Aleppo, Syria https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5e518e3df28ebc1bc1e77/1472660631548/ Testimonies. - Muhammed, 15 Hermel, Lebanon https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5dde0be6594026c41b4a9/1472660631524/ Testimonies. - Ghoson, 38 Damascus, Syria https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5e70603596ee216d943c5/1472660631523/ Testimonies. - Majidah, 42 Al-Qamishli, Syria https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5df97d482e9340441fd5b/1472660631581/ Testimonies. - Hamad, 24 Al-Salamiyah, Syria https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5e879e6f2e153d5c9ef04/1472660631684/ Testimonies. - Muhammed, 55 Damascus, Syria https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5e8b6cd0f6853873838ca/1472660631687/ Testimonies. - Reem, 21 Raqqa, Syria https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5e36c15d5db68ec03903a/1471538189568/ Testimonies. - Sanah, 47 Aleppo, Syria https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5e9662994ca41a6618043/1472660631691/ Testimonies. - Rewan, 20 Kurdistan https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5e9f38419c2ea57de53d9/1472660631729/ Testimonies. - Taghrid, 52 Beirut, Lebanon https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5ea4ee58c6246abbcc61c/1472660631761/ Testimonies. - Qosay Sharif, 30 Al-Hamidiyah, Syria https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5ea899f74565b47273b52/1472660631847/ Testimonies. - Fishel, 17 Kinshasa, Congo https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5eb0b579fb32986db8e3f/1472660631927/ Testimonies. - Hashem, 25 Palestine https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5eb2ff5e231bb11807d11/1472660631975/ Testimonies. - Giorgios Kaminis, 61 Mayor of Athens, Greece https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5eb811b631bf7695889a2/1472660631967/ Testimonies. - Saleh, 45 Yemen https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5ec16f5e231bb11808775/1472660631976/ Testimonies. - Josef, 48 Aleppo, Syria https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5ec512994ca41a661a08d/1472660632035/ Testimonies. - Spyros Gallinos, 65 Mayor of Lesvos, Greece https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5ecd3725e25aa99f7ce07/1472660632128/ Testimonies. - Zain, 23 Baghdad, Iraq https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5ed86197aeac5d04e34d9/1472660632138/ Testimonies. - Zahra, 28 Iran https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5ede0e6f2e153d5ca2ee6/1472660632163/ Testimonies. - Ahmed Misto, 21 Hama, Syria https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5ee1bd2b85742d3518ccc/1472660632219/ Testimonies. - Mohamed Gindo, 26 Bamako, Mali https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5ef4915d5db68ec041efa/1472660632191/ Testimonies. - Fatima, 17 Damascus, Syria https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5ef79197aeac5d04e4dbe/1472660632242/ Testimonies. - Redwan, 40 Damascus, Syria https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5efeaff7c5058a4844881/1472660632287/ Testimonies. - Ahmed, 37 Hermel, Lebanon https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b5f048b3db2b6c7ea70c91/1472660632319/ Testimonies. - Abdulla, 21 Hama, Syria https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b60b09f7e0ab34d474492d/1472660632338/ Testimonies. - Jameel, 57 Beirut, Lebanon https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/5748c0254d088e3b761c9733/57b624c2be6594a76e055c18/1472660632345/ Testimonies. - Sanah, 47 Hama, Syria http://www.refugeproject.co/making-refuge daily 0.75 2017-08-09 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/t/598a7d6e59cc688e546edd66/1502247957649/ Making Refuge. MAKING REFUGE | Behind the Scenes of the Project. Go behind the scenes with the filmmakers to experience the making of REFUGE in the field. Shot cinema-verité-style during production, the film features stand-up interviews with the crew and chronicles the journey of the filmmakers as they brought The Refuge Project to life. The Team. Matthew K. Firpo, Rosanna Bach, Elliot Ross, Stephen Michael Simon, Jake Saner, Haris Katsigiannis, and Matteo Zevi on location in Greece in January 2016. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/585402301b631b6c0645b5b5/585402cb5016e1e806424e9b/1502247957649/Making+Refuge+VIMEO+Thumbnail+-+PLAY.jpg Making Refuge. MAKING REFUGE | Behind the Scenes of the Project. Go behind the scenes with the filmmakers to experience the making of REFUGE in the field. Shot cinema-verité-style during production, the film features stand-up interviews with the crew and chronicles the journey of the filmmakers as they brought The Refuge Project to life. The Team. Matthew K. Firpo, Rosanna Bach, Elliot Ross, Stephen Michael Simon, Jake Saner, Haris Katsigiannis, and Matteo Zevi on location in Greece in January 2016. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/585402301b631b6c0645b5b5/585402d39656ca8b5878a6a5/1481900747527/ Making Refuge. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/585402301b631b6c0645b5b5/598a7b951e5b6cbabc9e119d/1502248302030/ Making Refuge. REFUGE | Official Trailer http://www.refugeproject.co/cover daily 1.0 2020-03-03 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/t/56fd997386db438915b4c007/1459460472328/Refuge+Website+Cover+-+Lifejackets.jpg The Refuge Project. http://www.refugeproject.co/tour daily 0.75 2016-03-27 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/t/568bab7105f8e2af802233f6/1410274487996/EbruYildiz_372.jpg Tour http://www.refugeproject.co/about-the-project daily 0.75 2018-12-20 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/t/56f77377b6aa60a67ecd4ec9/1464122158941/TheRefugeProjectTeam About. The Refuge Team. From Left: Elliot Ross, Rosanna Bach, Matteo Zevi, Matthew K. Firpo, Jake Saner, Haris Katsigiannis, Stephen Michael Simon. Not Pictured: Maximilian Guen http://www.refugeproject.co/trailer daily 0.75 2016-03-31 http://www.refugeproject.co/action daily 0.75 2016-12-12 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/t/5744c37127d4bdc94b47b8bd/1464124372383/BACK+-+Refuge+-+Activation+Card+-+Return+3.0.jpg Take Action. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/t/584731381b631b46949dc44a/1481060676663/ Take Action. http://www.refugeproject.co/testimonies daily 0.75 2016-08-18 http://www.refugeproject.co/the-book daily 0.75 2018-12-20 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/t/577c49263e00be4d81178a03/1467763017912/ The Book. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568ba4f569a91a2847ead63f/t/577c48c3e3df28703ba4b256/1467762890283/ The Book. http://www.refugeproject.co/watch daily 0.75 2018-12-20