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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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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

Mohammed

January 23, 2014 by Islelanders

Mohammed’s eyes The young man was just another of the hundreds of asylum-seekers I’ve photographed arriving in Malta over the years, sometimes disembarking from the boat that rescued them when their rickety vessels ran into trouble while crossing the Mediterranean, or sitting on a bus while 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 me was piercing and haunting, tearing through my camera […]

Categories: Asylum Seeker, Malta, photography, Photojournalism, Rescue • Tags: Malta, Photography, photojournalism, Refugees, rescue; man; asylum seeker

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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

BBC screenshot

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

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