Where We Are Now

I photographed individuals who left their homes in Africa and the Middle East to start new lives in Europe, in a bid to escape war, persecution and economic hardship during what became known as the ‘migrant crisis’. The project explores the protagonists’ sense of being ‘in-between’ – on the cusp of a new life but not yet established within it – missing their homeland and haunted by memories of the journey. Some were in a place they had never imagined being, others were confronting the gap between the Europe of their dreams, and the reality.

Published in Open Democracy

This project was created as part of the AHRC funded Network: ‘Responding to Crisis: Forced Migration and the Humanities in the Twenty-First Century’