Beneath the Same Sky, Beyond the Same Walls (2011 - 2016)
Between 2011 and 2016 I worked as a photojournalist in Greece and across the regions connected to the refugee crisis: Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. I often walked with those I photographed, ate with them, slept beside them, spoke with them for days. I shared their roads and their pauses. But I could never step into their steps. However close I came, I always returned to my own room, my own passport, my own safety.
I began this work with the idea of tracing their paths. In time I realized the only path I could truly trace was my own perspective changing. In Greece I felt the pressure of austerity; at borders and on the shores I saw the heavier pressure of war and European policies. Standing between these realities revealed how fragile and shifting the lines of victimhood and privilege can be.
They were searching for a new life. I was searching for my establishment in the photojournalistic world. This series became the space between those searches, and the fragile bridges that connect them.
