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Hundreds, or at some point thousands of people running away from conflict zones, persecution, lawlessness and the constant fear for their own and their relatives lives stuck together in Budapest's Keleti Railway station during the summer of 2015. This images was made in the very moment when people were informed that the local authorities suspended all rail traffic towards Western Europe and no other train will leave Budapest on that night. (August 31, 2015.)

 

 

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People running away from war and poverty are boarding the last train towards Austria and Western Europe in Röszke, Hungary. After the Hungarian authorities closed down the country's border with Serbia baring thousands of refugees from entering Hungary and the European Union, people idling on the Hungarian side were loaded on dirty trains and transferred to Austria. (early morning on September 15, 2015.)

There is this man sitting opposite me. The child in his arms is asleep after a long day of crying, walking, being carried on her mother’s back, sitting on the lap of this quiet man with a gentle face, after trying to cope with the extreme heat all day and now the cold and wet air – no wonder she has become totally exhausted by now. (Onboard of a long-distance bus at the Hungarian border with Austria,  September 5, 2015.)

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