How do you settle in a place that won‘t let you arrive? What is the concept of beauty in a room without mirrors? 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 recepti...
How do you settle in a place that won‘t let you arrive? What is the concept of beauty in a room without mirrors? 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.
Charlotte Schmitz' approach to her photography is deliberately personal and challenges the traditional documentary perspectives, which allows her to convey her messages about women and migration. She studied documentary photography and her work is published by outlets internationally and in her native Germany.
