These images are taken from Refugee , an exhibition at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles. Five acclaimed photographers captured images in Bangladesh, Cameroon, Colombia, Croatia, Greece, Burma, Serbia and Slovenia of people forced from their homes and looking for safety and the possibility of starting new lives.
Alone
A woman cooks in her family home in the Say Tha Mar Gyi camp in Burma. She is married, but her husband left her to return to his family. (© Lynsey Addario/Courtesy of Annenberg Space for Photography) Waiting
After arriving by train at Središče ob Dravi, Slovenia, a mother and baby wait for buses to take them further along their journey toward Western Europe. (© Tom Stoddart/Getty Images/Courtesy of Annenberg Space for Photography) Persevering
Young Ibrahima has spent his entire life in a Mbile refugee site in Cameroon. When his mother, Hawa, fled the Central African Republic, she had to make the long, difficult journey while pregnant. (© Omar Victor Diop/Courtesy of Annenberg Space for Photography) Living
Children in Puente Nayero in Colombia play an improvised game of table football. (© Graciela Iturbide/Courtesy of Annenberg Space for Photography) Reuniting
Briali Muhaghgh and his wife, Hanifa, and their children were separated crossing from Turkey to Lesbos, Greece, in two boats. Briali and his young daughter, Roya, believed Hanifa and the other three children had died. The family was eventually reunited in Berlin. (© Tom Stoddart/Getty Images/Courtesy of Annenberg Space for Photography) Surviving
A mother carries her daughter across the border between Serbia and Croatia near the village of Berkasovo in Serbia. (© Tom Stoddart/Getty Images/Courtesy of Annenberg Space for Photography) As part of Refugee , the New York–based photographer Martin Schoeller created portraits for a series called “New Americans” of refugees who have recently resettled in the United States.
From left: Bhimal, from Bhutan; Maryna, from Belarus; and Patricia, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (© Martin Schoeller/Courtesy of Annenberg Space for Photography)
