A child uses her soft toy to play with a Maltese woman during the World Refugee Day Festival at the Upper Barrakka Gardens in Valletta June 23, 2012. According to the majority of Maltese who responded to an EU-wide survey, immigrants do not offer any added value to the local economy or culture, local media reported.
I was struggling to find something that would make a good picture that was slightly different from the norm as I walked around the World Refugee Day Festival at the Upper Barrakka Gardens in Valletta. It was a bit too early in the evening, things hadn’t really kicked off yet but we needed an early picture for the newspaper. However, a little bit of patience paid off. The interaction between a Maltese woman and an African migrant child was precisely the sort of thing I was looking for.
Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Canon EF 70-200mm L/2.8 L IS USM
Focal length 200mm
Aperture Priority -0.7
f/4.5
1/200 sec
ISO 200
Islelanders 