amateur category
Weakness of the heart (Single)
DESCRIPTION
the picture was taken after a big love. Everybody knows this feeling and doesn't need any explanation.
AUTHOR
35 years old, amateur photographer
One Exhibition 2016 Bremen/Germany:
You have reached your destination is the title of the photographic exhibition portraying trafficking vehicles that transport refugees across the German-Austrian border to release them in Passau.The exhibition is a snapshot, portrays ordinary things of everyday life that are endowed with new meanings as a result of their surroundings. Such as a stuffed animal of Benjamin the elephant that is hanging from a rearview mirror. This innocent toy appears surreal and out of place in this particular context. The photos show some of the remnants of the traffickers: coke bottles, cigarette packs, maps
and left-behind belongings of the refugees: shoes, children’s toys, blankets.
The photos also attempt to convey the stark reality of the hardships and dangers that the refugees are faced with when taking on this last leg of their journey: to surrender themselves to the traffickers, to be cramped in the smallest spaces, surrounded by darkness, air often only supplied through a few tiny holes, they do not know what to expect when they arrive at their destination.
One Exhibition 2016 Bremen/Germany:
You have reached your destination is the title of the photographic exhibition portraying trafficking vehicles that transport refugees across the German-Austrian border to release them in Passau.The exhibition is a snapshot, portrays ordinary things of everyday life that are endowed with new meanings as a result of their surroundings. Such as a stuffed animal of Benjamin the elephant that is hanging from a rearview mirror. This innocent toy appears surreal and out of place in this particular context. The photos show some of the remnants of the traffickers: coke bottles, cigarette packs, maps
and left-behind belongings of the refugees: shoes, children’s toys, blankets.
The photos also attempt to convey the stark reality of the hardships and dangers that the refugees are faced with when taking on this last leg of their journey: to surrender themselves to the traffickers, to be cramped in the smallest spaces, surrounded by darkness, air often only supplied through a few tiny holes, they do not know what to expect when they arrive at their destination.
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