Message from Giles Duley about the refugee crisis and the power of stories

We cannot listen to this man enough. 

So grateful some people are doing such a great work with so much involvement. 

He's right: we can make a difference! Listen to his stories, share, think, try to understand the situation of the refugees from the inside, instead of just remaining afraid and puzzled. We are one world! Their problems are our problems.

Giles Duley started as a music photographer before finding he needed to report on news, crisis and war. He paid a high price for his involvement and only got stronger and stronger, and more committed.

He is one of the photographers who documented the whole of the recent refugee crisis, from the Syrian war to the shores of Greek islands, to mainland Europe. And it's not over.

Who wants to choose to remain insensitive in front of such a tragedy?

Here is Giles Duley's talk at the TedX Exeter, in southern England:

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Here are some of my photographs from Calais and from Northern Iraq. They are not as powerful but they are my way, as a journalist and storyteller, of involvement. 
We are messengers. 
It's very little but it's already something...

Calais, Afghan restaurant open by migrants:

Calais, The "Jungle":

Grande-Synthe, near Dunkirk, volunteers from D'Ici et D'Ailleurs, Feb. 2016:

Debaga camp for displaced people, Kurdistan, Iraq, April 2016:

Sardehti, Sinjar Montains, Nineweh province, Iraq:

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NB. I'm organising an exhibition of photos of refugees in Greece and Serbia by Livia Saavedra for the NGO WAHA International, in Paris. It'll be in the 10th art, in the town hall, from June the 20th to the 30th. More here soon.