Asylum Seekers, Israel, 2014

• Photographer
  Laura Chiesa, Israel

In February 2014, thousands of African asylum seekers protested
in front of the Ministry of Interiors in Tel Aviv. The protesters
demanded that Israel cease its policy of imprisonment and
recognize the community as refugees. Tel Aviv, 2014.

After her BA in Arts and Cinema Studies at the University of Bologna (Italy), she worked at Magnum Photos (Paris) for several years, as archive consultant, photo editor and as assistant to photographers such as Marc Riboud, Jean Gaumy, Georugui Pinkassov, Micha Bar Am.

Since 2009, she lives in Israel, where she started photographing as a freelance.