Being Human
Being Human Umar watched the horizon as some distinct green shape of land started to appear, the dinghy that carried him bounced on the waves of Aegean and with it bounced the hopes of 205 people saddled up together on that dinghy which could barely accommodate 30. The water and air that these people received had in it salt, the salt tasting same everywhere on the entire planet earth, tasted of life, of freedom on this little dinghy. ( A drawing by a child living in Moria refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece. The child is one of 18 minors who attempted suicide there between February and June 2018. All photographs by Alessio Mamo for the Guardian ) Umar chose to ignore the unbearable stench, as he measured the distance with his hands, he looked nowhere but at the horizon and at the land which started to take the shape of an island. As the dinghy approached the coastal waters, the sea turned into a turpid pool of human remains, bodies of children and people flo