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Islelanders is a photographic art project, based on Darrin Zammit Lupi's experience as a photojournalist, documenting the lives of asylum seekers and migrants through and after their journey across the Mediterranean Sea.

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October 2, 2014 by Islelanders

Sometimes you can miss real gems when rushing to edit and file your pictures after an event. This is one of those – I only came across some five years later when going back through the thousands of images I’ve shot on this long-term story. The reflection of the patrol boat and the AFM sailor, right over the child’s face, must have caught my eye at the time. Canon EOS-1D Mk II Canon EF16-35mm f/2.8L USM Focal length 35mm Aperture […]

Categories: Armed Forces of Malta, photography, Photojournalism, Refugee, Rescue • Tags: Asylum seekers: child; rescue

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September 18, 2014 by Islelanders

This picture was one of the very first I ever took of irregular immigrants, back in a time when migration was not an issue in Malta. I photographed several migrants, in such poor shape that they could barely walk, being carried off the Russian ship, but this image, one of the last on my roll of film, is the one which has lingered longest in my mind. The woman’s vacant stare, the raindrops on the bus window, the dull light […]

Categories: Armed Forces of Malta, Departure, Malta, photography • Tags: Asylum seekers: child; rescue, Malta, photojournalism

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August 26, 2014 by Islelanders

Together with another photographer, I was slowly and discreetly moving from room to room at the detention centre, always seeking the subjects’ permission before I would photograph them in the privacy of their dormitory. This woman, lying quietly on her bed, gave the smallest of nods in my direction when I showed her my camera. Neither of us ever whispered a word, yet there seemed to be a great deal of communication taking place. Canon EOS-1D XCanon EF50mm f/1.4 USMFocal […]

Categories: Detention, Living in Malta, Malta, photography, Photojournalism, Refugee, Uncategorized • Tags: Asylum seekers: child; rescue, Detention, Photography, photojournalism

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July 18, 2014 by Islelanders

I was allowed to board the AFM’s patrol boat when it arrived at its base carrying sixty-five rescued migrants. One of the advantages of covering arrivals in the middle of the night was that very few journalists would be present so we’d have a lot more freedom to move around than is the norm. Though it was pretty dark, the reflective space blankets (sometimes referred to as thermal blankets) draped around the migrants were bouncing enough light around to enable […]

Categories: Armed Forces of Malta, Asylum Seeker, Malta, Photojournalism, Refugee, Rescue • Tags: Asylum seekers: child; rescue, Malta, photojournalism, Rescue

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March 31, 2014 by Islelanders

Out on the quay jutting out into Anchor Bay, seawater and spray were splattering us, as the weather was terrible. I wrapped my camera in a plastic bag to try protecting it from the elements. It wasn’t so much the water that worried me – it was the highly corrosive salt. Canon EOS 5D Mark II Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM Focal length 17mm Aperture Priority f/9 1/200 sec ISO 200

Categories: Asylum Seeker, Malta, photography, Photojournalism, Refugee, Rescue • Tags: Asylum seekers: child; rescue, Malta, Photography, photojournalism, Rescue, rescue; man; asylum seeker, somalia

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January 23, 2014 by Islelanders

Child rescued by Armed Forces of Malta The child’s weathered face immediately caught my eye as the AFM rescue vessel was berthing at its base. As the boat slowly manoeuvred into position, I waited till the red flowing robe gave me the interesting background, then quickly shot a couple of frames. Canon EOS 1D Mark III Canon EF 70-200mm L/2.8L IS USM Focal length 200mm Manual exposure f/3.5 1/1000 sec ISO 400

Categories: Armed Forces of Malta, Asylum Seeker, children, photography, Photojournalism, Rescue • Tags: Asylum seekers: child; rescue, Photography, photojournalism, Rescue

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Pretty Bay

January 23, 2014 by Islelanders

Pretty Bay This was a picture I had seen in my mind’s eye many times before I actually took it. I had long wanted to capture an image showing an almost absurd juxtaposition of contrasting elements, and this occasion certainly provided it in full. Canon EOS 1D Mark III Canon EF 70-200mm L/2.8L IS USM Focal length 115mm Manual exposure f/3.5 1/100 sec ISO 500

Categories: Malta, Rescue • Tags: armed forces of malta, Asylum seekers: child; rescue, asylum seekers; Somalia; AFM, Malta, Rescue

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Isle Landers – The book

The photos in this book, covering everything from rescues at sea, life in detention centres, life in Malta and refugees being resettled to the U.S. and continental Europe, were shot on assignment for Times of Malta, Reuters and a host of other international publications between 2004 and 2014.

Isle Landers is available in all good bookstores in Malta and Gozo (free delivery to Malta addresses)

click here to purchase the book

If you are purchasing the book from outside Malta use the coupon code ISLE30 to get a discount on the shipping

Photographing the Mediterranean’s Migrants

Photographer Darrin Zammit Lupi tells BBC Newsday's Nuala McGovern about his work documenting the lives of migrants in the Mediterranean.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02ffbmj/player

The migrant behind the eyes

"The man was just another of the hundreds of asylum-seekers that Darrin has photographed arriving in Malta, sitting on a bus whilst waiting to be driven away to police headquarters for processing by immigration officials. But with a momentary glance, all that changed. His gaze straight at Darrin was piercing and haunting, tearing through his camera lens."

I wrote an extensive article on my Reuters' blog. click here to read it

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Isle Landers Photographic Exhibition, St James Cavalier, Valletta, Malta – 6 Dec 2014 – 4 Jan 2015

Media Photographer of the Year 2013. Ben Jones Societies’ Online News Editor with Darrin Zammit Lupi, London 2014

Interviewing Steve McCurry, Valletta 2012

Costa Concordia shipwreck: Double page in Geo magazine (French Magazine)

Reuters- Our World Now Vol 1

Reuters- The State of the World

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Meeting a Palestinian child from Syria refugee in Malta, summer 2013. Photo credit: Heidi Levine/SIPA Press

In Libya

Media Photographer of 2013

Brega, Libya

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