Antonis Pasvantis

Photographer
RAFT OF LESBOS
Location: Kavala, Greece
Nationality: Greek
Biography:  Born in 1977 Kavala/Greece. Sudiied Engineering at Brunel University West London and Photography at Leica Academy Athens. Like to walk and take pistures in the street, dealing with people, love, religious and bodies. 
Public Story
RAFT OF LESBOS
Copyright Antonis Pasvantis 2024
Updated Jan 2016
Topics Documentary, Migration, Photography, Photojournalism

The ''RAFT of LESBOS '' documents the plight of the migrant crisis. It renders the geography of human despair following those who fled their countries after the outbreak of the civil war, making their gateway to Europe.

Lesbos, one of the prettiest Greek islands in the Aegean, heavily influenced by the weights of the Greek Economic crisis, makes not only a short distanced step and a frontline to the European gateway but also a temporary recovery zone for immigrants out-washed and abandoned to its beaches seeking to organize their routes to developed European countries.

This migration wave, perhaps the greatest after the IIWW, combined with the socioeconomic difficulties that weigh upon the local inhabitants renders Lesvos a "˜ship in distress" phase to phase with a strengthened humanitarian crisis.

What end one should foresee upon this trajectory? A restless gaze records and traces this question over the swinging European landscape.
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