Slideshow: Refugee camp in Idomeni, Greece
All photos by Filip Warwick. Hear/read his accompanying radio report.
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- An exhausted migrant sleeps on the Athens to Thessaloniki train. (Photo credit: Filip Warwick)
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- From the Thessaloniki train station refugees are taken by taxi to the penultimate village on the Greek-Macedonian border. (Photo credit: Filip Warwick)
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- A mother wraps her daughter in order to walk the last 5km from the village to the border refugee camp. (Photo credit: Filip Warwick)
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- Refugees and migrants power up their smartphones. (Photo credit: Filip Warwick)
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- Signs in English and Arabic direct camp refugees to camp services. (Photo credit: Filip Warwick)
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- Part of the refugee camp finds itself on a refuse site. (Photo credit: Filip Warwick)
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- As the evening draws to an end a family huddles up next to a campfire. (Photo credit: Filip Warwick)
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- A refugee in crutches waits for his turn to cross the border. (Photo credit: Filip Warwick)
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- No matter day or night, the flow of refugees towards the camp is constant. (Photo credit: Filip Warwick)
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- A man wrapped in a blanket sleeps on the ground next to a lit campfire. (Photo credit: Filip Warwick)
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- Children shoes outside a tent. (Photo credit: Filip Warwick)
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- As the sun rises three woman light a campfire in the Greek countryside. (Photo credit: Filip Warwick)
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- Praxis, one of the NGOs operating within the camp, distributes morning milk to children. (Photo credit: Filip Warwick)
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- Another morning activity is gathering wood in the Greek countryside for campfire fuel. (Photo credit: Filip Warwick)
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- No matter day or night, the flow of refugees towards the camp is constant across Greek fields. (Photo credit: Filip Warwick)
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- Refugees sit on the rail lines which run parallel to the camp. They chant to “open the border.” (Photo credit: Filip Warwick)
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- With the border gate closed two young men talk between themselves. (Photo credit: Filip Warwick)
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- A sign informing families to have their telephone numbers written on their children’s arms. (Photo credit: Filip Warwick)
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- Waiting in line to cross into Macedonia, a woman faints. Volunteers come to her aid. (Photo credit: Filip Warwick)
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- Macedonian riot and border police await them on the opposite side. (Photo credit: Filip Warwick)
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- As the gate is breached Macedonian police use tear gas to disperse the crowd. (Photo credit: Filip Warwick)
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- A young refugee looks toward the Macedonian border while the gate is reinforced. (Photo credit: Filip Warwick)
