Refugees at a detention centre in Lesbos. Petros Giannakouris/PA images. All rights reserved.2015 and 2016 have been marked by the heart-breaking images of a moving humanity of refugees and immigrants who leave the battlefronts of Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya to come to Europe, their imaginary Arcadia.
More than one million people have braved the rough waters of the Aegean and Libyan seas with the bulk landing on the Greek islands of Lesbos, Chios, Kos, Agathonissi, Farmakonissi and Lemnos.
On the way to the islands, thousands have lost their lives. Photographs of drowned dead bodies lying on the beaches of Greece and Turkey have been published daily. The image of dead three-year-old Aylan Kurdi on a Turkish beach in early September went around the world and became the image of the refugee crisis.
