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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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Yonas

October 7, 2014 by Islelanders

Yonas arrived in Malta ten years ago, fleeing war and persecution in his native Eritrea. Unlike many migrants who have landed in Malta, he has carved out a life for himself on the island, making it his home. His is a success story – he runs an internet cafe and restaurant offering typical Eritrean cuisine. I spent an afternoon and evening with him, taking pictures as he prepared and served dinner for a large pre-booked group. Of all the images […]

Categories: Living in Malta, Malta, photography, Photojournalism, Refugee • Tags: Malta; refugee; integration, Photography

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April 9, 2014 by Islelanders

I had been at this musical integration party for a couple of hours and had very little to show for it. Sometimes things just don’t work out picture-wise. Nevertheless, I kept my eyes open for any opportunities, and as the event was winding down, I spotted this child talking to some Maltese children. I slowly moved closer, sat down on the bench behind them and instantly knew the resulting picture had been worth the long wait. Canon EOS-1D X Canon […]

Categories: children, Living in Malta, Refugee • Tags: Malta, Malta; refugee; integration

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March 31, 2014 by Islelanders

I love shooting in shafts of sunlight when indoors, playing with high contrast and deep shadows.I always take manual exposure readings in this sort of situation. Canon EOS-1D Mark II Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L Focal length 20mm Manual Exposure f/8 1/500 sec ISO 200

Categories: Living in Malta, Malta, photography, Photojournalism, Refugee • Tags: Malta; refugee; integration, photojournalism

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March 20, 2014 by Islelanders

This was a lucky and hastily grabbed shot as I was walking back to my office from an assignment. Camera was at the ready, as it usually is, I saw what I felt was an interesting scene unfolding in front of me, and I quickly lifted the camera and shot a couple of frames. It’s not perfect, the head of a passer-by in the foreground bothers me a bit, but that’s the sort of thing you’re likely to have to […]

Categories: Armed Forces of Malta, children, Living in Malta, Malta, photography, Photojournalism, Refugee • Tags: Malta, Malta; refugee; integration, migration, Photography, photojournalism, police; photography; asylum seekers; Somalia; AFM, somalia

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February 18, 2014 by Islelanders

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 […]

Categories: children, Living in Malta, photography, Refugee • Tags: asylum seekers; child; Malta;, Malta; refugee; integration

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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

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