Watch The Radical Imagination: Refugees Welcome

Since January 2015, over 590,000 refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq have passed through Lesvos, Greece on their journey to safety and the numbers continue to rise daily. While this story has been a frequent headline in the news, the personal stories of struggle are often overlooked by mainstream media.

On this episode of “The Radical Imagination;” co-hosts Michael Pelias, a philosophy professor at LIU Brooklyn; and Peter Bratsis, a social sciences professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College, sit down with photojournalists, Harriet Dedman and Fahrinisa Oswald, who both spent months documenting the refugee crisis in Lesvos. Watch as they share photos, videos and anecdotes about the refugees they interacted with.

Harriet Dedman is a photojournalist, filmmaker and former lawyer from the United Kingdom. She is currently studying documentary photography and photojournalism at the London College of Communication and journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Her work has been featured in international news publications such as BBCand CNN International.

Fahrinisa Oswald is an accomplished photojournalist and documentary photographer from New York City, who has taken photos around the world in countries such as India, Thailand and England. She is also a graduate student at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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