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Magnum's moving photos of refugees
The photo agency teams with Amnesty International to highlight refugee crises past and present
Anyone who believes Europe’s current refugee crisis is unprecedented should take a look through Magnum Photos’ archives. The world-famous photo agency has covered many similar events since its foundation in 1947. Indeed, one of Magnum’s earliest photobooks, David ‘Chim’ Seymour’s Enfants d’Europe – published in conjunction with UNESCO in 1949 – captures the plight of displaced children, many of whom were housed in refugee camps following the Greek civil war.
Seymour’s book features in our new publication Magnum Photobook: The Catalogue Raisonné, and some of his images also appear in a new outdoor photo exhibition opening in London this week.
![A spread from avid ‘Chim’ Seymour’s Enfants d’Europe, 1949, as reproduced in Magnum Photobook: The Catalogue Raisonné](/resource/022-3-chim-seymour.jpg)
UK human-rights organization Amnesty International has partnered with the world-famous photo agency to host a free public exhibition of refugee photographs from the 1940s up until the present day.
![A family stands on what is left of their home. SYRIA. Kobani / Kobane (Arabic: Ayn al Arab). 06 August 2015. © Lorenzo Meloni/Magnum Photos](/resource/lorenzo-meloni-magnum-photos.jpg)
The show, I Welcome, runs 7 – 18 December along London’s South Bank, in an effort to illustrate how often these sorts of crises have arisen over the decades following the Second World War.
I Welcome forms part of Amnesty’s larger campaign, in which it is calling on the UK Government to share responsibility in responding to the crisis.
![Syrian families, mostly from Aleppo, are placed in a refugee camp in Vasariste near the Serbian- Hungarian border. After a day to recover, they will walk and attempt to cross the Serbian-Hungarian border. The migrants, mostly from the Middle East but also from as far as Afghanistan, are aiming to get to Serbia, the last country that stands between them and a European Union member state, Hungary. SERBIA. Vasariste. August 12, 2015 © Jerome Sessini / Magnum Photos](/resource/jerome-sessoni-magnum-photos.jpg)
To find out more about Seymour Chim’s Enfants d’Europe and many other titles order a copy of Magnum Photobook: The Catalogue Raisonné here.