TRAVELLING LIGHT
Sixty million people in the world today are refugees. In 2015, more than 300,000 people undertook the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe. Syrians call this journey ‘the journey of death’. For a lot of money they put their lives and the lives of their families into the hands of smugglers, who promise to take them across the sea. Crammed into small, unseaworthy boats – often for many hours, if not days, without any food and drinking water – they hold out in the hope that they will get rescued before the boat gives in. So who are the people that risk their lives in the Mediterranean? I wanted to know what people, who leave everything behind to embark on such a gruelling journey, manage to take over into a new life, and what these items mean to them.
Project Publications
Solo Exhibitions:
25.9.2016 – 30.10.2016 Edith-Stein-Haus, Ludwigsburg, D
12.6.2016 – 10.7.2016 Alte Synagoge, Hechingen, D
3.3.2016 – 17.3.2016 Etage 2, Rottweil, D
6.12.2015 – 31.1.2016 Galerie im Altbau, Aldingen, D
Awards:
2016 – Tokyo International Foto Awards TIFA, Documentary Book Category, Gold
2016 – ND Awards, Editorial Documentary Category, Honorable Mention
2016 – RPS International Photobook Awards, Shortlist
2016 – Lugano Photo Days, Open Call, Selected
2016 – Lugano Photo Days, Reportage, Selected
2016 – Alfred Fried Photography Award, Shortlist
2016 – Moscow International Foto Awards MIFA, Book Category, Winner
2016 – Kolga Photo Award, Shortlist
2016 – Sony World Photography Awards, Shortlist
2015 – COMPAS Visual Arts Competition, First Prize
2015 – London Int. Creative Competition, LICC, Shortlist
Publications:
– Travelling Light (the book to this project), hardcover, 184 pages, crazeebee books, available in English and German here
– Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt für Württemberg – Schwere Reise, leichtes Gepäck
– kwerfeldein.de – Mit leichtem Gepäck reisen
– GEO.de – Travelling Light: Was von der Flucht übrig blieb
– BBC – In Pictures: Travelling Light by Kiki Streitberger