Children are the most vulnerable of all in the midst of a crisis.
According to a UNICEF report, in 2015 alone, one in every four-
asylum seeker during what has become the largest ongoing
migration crisis since the Second World War has been a child. They
were exposed to some of the most treacherous and challenging
circumstances during a journey their parents chose to take to flee
war and other dire conditions in their respective countries such as
Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. About 10,000 unaccompanied child
refugees have disappeared upon arriving in Europe, according to
the European Union’s criminal intelligence agency. The majority of
them are feared to have fallen into the hands of organized
trafficking syndicates.
Award-winning Indonesian photographer Kemal Jufri's career started in 1996 when he joined Agence-France Presse (AFP). He left AFP two years later and worked as a photo contributor for Asiaweek until the magazine closed down in 2001. Since then he has worked as a freelance photographer across Asia for major publications, including Newsweek, TIME, The New York Times, STERN and Der Spiegel. His photographs of the Mount Merapi eruptions in Central Java at the end of 2010 won him a total of seven awards from five prestigious International Photojournalism competitions including the World Press Photo, Picture of The Year International, NPPA Best of Photojournalism, China International Press Photo Contest and Prix De La Photographie Paris (PX3).
