Mediterranean

• Prize
  Curator Selection
• Photographer
  Selene Magnolia Gatti, Germany
• Category
  Europe
• Website
  https://s-magnoliagatti.com/
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/s.magnolia.gatti/

The Central Mediterranean Sea, with its long history of migration, is the deadliest border to Europe. In 2023, at least 3.129 people trying to cross into Europe were reported missing or dead at sea: an average of 8 victims per day. The crossing is unanimously described as a perilous ordeal, a ‘journey of life or death’ by the survivors, fully aware that they might lose their lives at sea, but choose it over staying.
During a rescue operation onboard the civilian rescue ship Sea-Watch 5, rescued refugees wrote their messages to Europe.

Award-winning freelance visual journalist. Her work spans issues relating to social justice, anthropology, human rights, identity, the environment, and food production. Raised in the Italian Dolomites, she is based in Berlin. During the past years, she covered, among others topics, environmental crime, migration, border brutality on land and the Mediterranean Sea, and has traveled over one and a half years to the biggest Gypsy ghetto in Europe. 2023 recipient of the Journalismfund grant for an ongoing project about the impact of factory farming. Since 2023 she is represented by Panos Pictures.

Awards LUCIE Foundation x 2
SIPA
A37
Photo Is:Rael
MIFA
APA
The Independent Photographer
Featureshoot's Global Billboard Project
Life Framer
Prix De La Photographie