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CPOY 71 Portfolio Gold, College Photographer of the Year: Nora Lorek

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Slide 19 of 52
April 1, 2016

Assadik Eshady, 22 from Sudan. He recently applied for asylum in France and left his fingerprint two weeks ago. When the picture was taken, he had lived in the jungle for seven months. "I do not want to risk being hit by a truck and die like several of my friends here,” he said about his decision of applying for asylum in France He started talking about the 18 hours journey by boat from Libya to Italy. "We sat in rows, close proximity to each other so that more would fit. Every time someone died, we had to throw out the person in the water to get a bit more space. Others have it worse and go with about 20 people in rubber boats that nobody knows if the boat will last. " In their small block they call the Buckingham Palace refugees from Ghana, Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia are living together. In the middle there’s a large tent with many holes so it can be used as fire tent to keep up the heat at night.

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