Snapshots from the borders offered accurate information about migration, but moved away from numbers. The project centred the narrative on individual stories of people and border areas. 

Individual tales of migration and active citizenship help(ed) inspire the direct involvement of ordinary people and local authorities on migration issues.

Vito Fiorino, who runs an ice cream parlour on the island of Lampedusa, does not hold back his emotions when recalling a tragedy at sea in 2013:

“We heard screams, but at first I thought they were seagulls. They were people. […] They were naked, then they told us that they threw their clothes so as not to drown; they were covered with gasoline, because of the explosion. They were slipping away from our hands. I could no longer look at the sea with the same eyes after that night.” 

Vito saved 47 people from drowning that night.

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