© 2015 Jason Florio

Pleading for Release
2015
Black and White Digital Type-C Print
Edition of 20
16 x 20 inches

Onboard a fishing boat 30 miles off the coast of Libya, carrying 414 migrants and refugees attempting to get to Italy, a Bangladeshi man begs to be released from the overcrowded hold of the boat where he was packed with 150 men in slave-ship like conditions. The migrant boat was intercepted by the NGO, Migrant Offshore Aid Station rescue ship, and all the people onboard were evacuated.