Photographer, W.Eugene Smith Fund recipient, 6 x winner of Amnesty International Award for human rights journalism. 2 x WPP awards. Founder @WitnessChange_
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ALT Roghaia Mohammadi looks off into the distance in front of a floral print background.
ALT “I hope they live in a secure world,” says Roholah Mohamadi (35), speaking about his children’s future. Roholah grew up in Iran, but an issue with residence cards saw him and his wife deported to Afghanistan, his country of birth – a place they neither knew nor felt secure in. “People who lived there didn’t care about bombs or seeing someone being killed...We found it hard to live in this situation.” In Europe, he hoped, he’d find peace and a future for his family. The journey was “like a movie.” He and his young family were forced to cross a freezing lake, stuffed into an over-crowded, airless bus and had to make a dangerous sea crossing. He thought they’d drown: “When the boat was full of water, I couldn’t even talk to my family. We were crying… My wife couldn’t swim and I wasn’t able to choose which one of them to rescue.” Now they stay in a refugee camp in Greece which is like “a prison.” But, “I try to think positively,” he says. “If we get depressed, no one can give hope to our c
