[Portfolio] Migrants, traces

[Hugh_3170]

Great work Bruno. 

One reads of these people in the Australian press, but your images of the people and their discarded items have brought home to me their plight even more strongly than have the press articles.

[pluton]

I appreciate the documentation, free of breathless media editing and hype.  A sense of what it really looks like.

[ColinM]

I appreciate the documentation, free of breathless media editing and hype.  A sense of what it really looks like.

I echo Keith's comments too Bruno.

[Anthony]

Excellent photojournalism, Bruno.

[Bruno Schroder]

Thank you, guys.

[Hugh_3170]

+1 to Keith's remarks - my reaction as well.

I appreciate the documentation, free of breathless media editing and hype.  A sense of what it really looks like.

[ARTUROARTISTA]

This morning they came by here and left this. They are coming from Africa to Spain.
NIKKOR 50 mm 1.2 lens

[Bruno Schroder]

Thanks for sharing, Arturo. It is stuff they leave after they succeeded to reach Spain, I guess. As here, they have taken time to load abandoned clothes with stones, to make then easier to find by someone else in need.

[Frank Fremerey]

Thank you, Bruno, for the reminder
I fear there will be many more people fleeing from other human's behaviour and climate change. What we see today is only a very small fraction of what we will see in the future.
The interesting thing for me is, that the rich, who seem to cause most of this trouble, seem least compassionate of their poor brother's and sister's needs.
If we currently embark into a world with less compassion: Where will it take us?

[ARTUROARTISTA]

Thanks for sharing, Arturo. It is stuff they leave after they succeeded to reach Spain, I guess. As here, they have taken time to load abandoned clothes with stones, to make then easier to find by someone else in need.

Yesterday morning, the group of Africans was stopped by two police cars. Then, when I was returning from Campillo de Adentro, I saw the backpacks and bags near the tree. I think they left it like that with the idea of ​​going back to get their things.

[ARTUROARTISTA]

NIKON NIKKOR 50mm 1:2

[Erik Lund]

Very good photo journalism! What a tragic world we live in

[ARTUROARTISTA]

Very good photo journalism! What a tragic world we live in

Thanks Erik, when you see things like this, it makes you think.

[Bruno Schroder]

Thank you, Frank and Erik.
Personally, I remain optimistic. In a region that gave an absolute majority to the far-right party, when ‘voters’ are confronted with migrants, all I see, the comments I hear, is compassion. Yet statistically, at least half of those who watch the departure have voted for the far right. It's very different to be confronted with real people/families struggling to escape doom than to react to the media or social networks.
And as a photographer, we can socialise what we see.

[Bruno Schroder]

Sea Rescue team looking for bodies on the shoreline.
Earlier this week, I was waken up by roaring engines and blue flashlights. The Sea Rescue Team had received a call from a fishing boat signaling a sea incident. They deployed 100 meters from our home. They didn’t find a body, but a migrant drowned that night, 50 km up north.

Cross posted in the March 2025 thread https://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?topic=11158.new#new