Charlotte Schmitz

Documentary photography

women of moria

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Location: Flensburg

Nationality: German

Biography: Charlotte Schmitz is a documentary photographer whose approach to her work challenges traditional documentary perspectives, which conveys her personal views on topics concerning women and migration. She grew up in the Danish Minority in Germany... MORE

How do you settle in a place that won‘t let you arrive? How are women feeling in a refugee camp, where they are under constant social supervision? How can they find a private space? And where remains the intimate?

Three years after the »EU-Turkey Agreement«, the reception centers for asylum seekers and refugees on the Aegean islands remain overcrowded. On the former military site of Moria on Lesvos, more than 6,000 people live closely together. They have to stay on the island, until their asylum procedure has been completed. Some have been waiting already for over two years. And every day, more people are arriving.

An intimate look into the private space and daily life of women in Moria. A place, where journalists have limited access since years.

(Text by Franziska Grillmeier, who is based on Lesvos)