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The desperation and hope of refugees in the images of Angelos Tzortzinis
Angelos Tzortzinis, from the series Trapped in Greece
A refugee boy gazes over a border fence separating Greece from Macedonia, at the northern Greek border station of Idomeni, on March 2, 2016.
More of 90.000 refugees and migrants stranded in Greece, after the closure of the borders.
Angelos Tzortzinis, from the series Trapped in Greece
Graves of refugees, most unidentified, who drowned while crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Lesbos, on February 29 ,2016.
According to the International Organisation for Migration, more than 3.770 people have lost their lives in their attempt to reach the European Union in 2015.
Angelos Tzortzinis, from the series Trapped in Greece
A refugee woman holds her baby as she sits inside a tent during rainfall at a makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the village of Idomeni on March 15, 2016.
Angelos Tzortzinis, from the series Trapped in Greece
A refugee family faces a cloud of smoke in clashes with police near a refugee camp in the village of Diavata near Thessaloniki on April 6, 2019.
On April 4, 2019, some 2000 migrants announced their intention to march from the northern Greek port of Thessaloniki to the border with northern Macedonia, some 60 kilometres to the north. Then they want to travel on to Central Europe.
Angelos Tzortzinis, from the series Trapped in Greece
A newly closed gate of the railway passage at the Greek-Macedonian border next to a refugee camp Idomeni, on March 5, 2016.
More than 90.000 refugees and migrants are stranded in Greece, after the closure of the borders.
Angelos Tzortzinis, from the series Trapped in Greece
A refugee reads a magazine next to open fire in the refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos, on March 26, 2019.
Around 4500 refugees and migrants live there. They have been forced to settle around the island's so-called hotspot, a former prison which, behind its steel fences reinforced with barbed wire, offers space for just 650 people.
Angelos Tzortzinis, from the series Trapped in Greece
Refugees at the Eleonas camp, where they find shelter for long time, in Athens on November 15, 2018.
Angelos Tzortzinis, from the series Trapped in Greece
A refugee tries to keep warm around a fire in an abandoned factory which is temporary home for refugees in Patras, southwestern Greece, on December 1, 2018.
Still, a few have not given up hope. Some try to smuggle themselves into ferries at the western port of Patras to get to Italy, a dangerous passage.
Angelos Tzortzinis, from the series Trapped in Greece
The burnt camp of Moria on the island of Lesbos on September 13, 2020, a few days after a fire destroyed the refugee camp.
Angelos Tzortzinis, from the series Trapped in Greece
A man with a girl sit on their belongings as other refugees and migrants from the Moria camp protest on the Greek island of Lesbos, on September 11, 2020, a few days after a fire destroyed the Moria refugee camp.
