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  • A group of Afghan teenagers celebrating minutes after their boat landed on the beach of Skala Sykaminias. Everyday hundreds of refugees, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, are crossing in small overcrowded inflatable boats the 6 mile channel from the Turkish coast to the island of Lesbos in Greece. Many spend their life savings, over $1000, to buy a space on those boats.
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  • Morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. Aysha took a taxi to Vienna, together with the three Syrian teenagers who were helping her carry her kids from Serbia to Hungary. As soon as the taxi drove off everyone fell asleep.
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  • Night, Monday 14th of September 2015. Aysha plays with her daughters in the train compartment. This particular car is full of Afghan teenagers, some of there are loud and fights between them start. Aysha is scared.
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  • Teenagers confronting riot police in front of the Greek parliament. <br />
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Following the murder of a 15 year old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, by a policeman on 6 December 2008 widespread riots, protests and unrest followed lasting for several weeks and spreading beyond the capital and even overseas<br />
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When I walked in the streets of my town the day after the riots I instantly forgot the image I had about Athens, that of a bustling, peaceful, energetic metropolis and in my mind came the old photographs from WWII, the civil war and the students uprising against the dictatorship. <br />
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Thus I decided not to turn my digital camera straight to the destroyed buildings but to photograph through an old camera that worked as a filter, a barrier between me and the city.
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  • Riot Police pushing back the protesting teenagers to Syntagma square<br />
<br />
Following the murder of a 15 year old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, by a policeman on 6 December 2008 widespread riots, protests and unrest followed lasting for several weeks and spreading beyond the capital and even overseas<br />
<br />
When I walked in the streets of my town the day after the riots I instantly forgot the image I had about Athens, that of a bustling, peaceful, energetic metropolis and in my mind came the old photographs from WWII, the civil war and the students uprising against the dictatorship. <br />
<br />
Thus I decided not to turn my digital camera straight to the destroyed buildings but to photograph through an old camera that worked as a filter, a barrier between me and the city.
    081208_386.jpg
  • Riot Police pushing back the protesting teenagers to Syntagma square<br />
<br />
Following the murder of a 15 year old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, by a policeman on 6 December 2008 widespread riots, protests and unrest followed lasting for several weeks and spreading beyond the capital and even overseas<br />
<br />
When I walked in the streets of my town the day after the riots I instantly forgot the image I had about Athens, that of a bustling, peaceful, energetic metropolis and in my mind came the old photographs from WWII, the civil war and the students uprising against the dictatorship. <br />
<br />
Thus I decided not to turn my digital camera straight to the destroyed buildings but to photograph through an old camera that worked as a filter, a barrier between me and the city.
    081208_384.jpg
  • Morning, Tuesday 15th of September 2015. On the motorway to Vienna we see a group of Afghan teenagers who could’t afford a Taxi ride to Vienna. They walk on the hard shoulder.
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  • A teenage girl confronting the riot police that protects the Greek parliament.<br />
<br />
Following the murder of a 15 year old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, by a policeman on 6 December 2008 widespread riots, protests and unrest followed lasting for several weeks and spreading beyond the capital and even overseas<br />
<br />
When I walked in the streets of my town the day after the riots I instantly forgot the image I had about Athens, that of a bustling, peaceful, energetic metropolis and in my mind came the old photographs from WWII, the civil war and the students uprising against the dictatorship. <br />
<br />
Thus I decided not to turn my digital camera straight to the destroyed buildings but to photograph through an old camera that worked as a filter, a barrier between me and the city.
    081209_689.jpg
  • A teenager protesting in front of a riot policeman in Syntagma square. <br />
<br />
Following the murder of a 15 year old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, by a policeman on 6 December 2008 widespread riots, protests and unrest followed lasting for several weeks and spreading beyond the capital and even overseas<br />
<br />
When I walked in the streets of my town the day after the riots I instantly forgot the image I had about Athens, that of a bustling, peaceful, energetic metropolis and in my mind came the old photographs from WWII, the civil war and the students uprising against the dictatorship. <br />
<br />
Thus I decided not to turn my digital camera straight to the destroyed buildings but to photograph through an old camera that worked as a filter, a barrier between me and the city.
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  • Teenage protestors against riot police in front of Hotel Grande Bretagne in Syntagma square, Athens. Following the murder of a 15 year old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, by a policeman on 6 December 2008 widespread riots, protests and unrest followed lasting for several weeks and spreading beyond the capital and even overseas<br />
<br />
When I walked in the streets of my town the day after the riots I instantly forgot the image I had about Athens, that of a bustling, peaceful, energetic metropolis and in my mind came the old photographs from WWII, the civil war and the students uprising against the dictatorship. <br />
<br />
Thus I decided not to turn my digital camera straight to the destroyed buildings but to photograph through an old camera that worked as a filter, a barrier between me and the city.
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  • Afternoon, Monday 14th of September 2015. Aysha just crossed into Hungary and she has a little rest under the trees before going to a field where buses are waiting to take the refugees to the Austrian border. A Syrian teenager who was carrying Sham during the long march on the rail line, is giving her 2 cans of condensed milk that was given to him in Greece by volunteers.
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  • Dimitri Giannoulis the MSF doctor at the mobile unit at the port of Mytiline treats an Afghan teenager who burned his left hand at a forest fire in Turkey.
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