"I feel so close to these people, as I already passed by this experience" AFP photographer sameer_aldoumy won the2022 icrc Humanitarian visapourlimage d'or Award for his portfolio Fatal Crossings, an epic tale of migrants' attempts to cross the Channel from France to Britain Sameer began working as a video journalist for local media in Syria in 2011, covering the start of the anti-government uprising. His collaboration with AFP began when he spent four years covering the Syrian government’s siege of the Eastern Ghouta region, including in his home town of Douma. His work earned him 1st prize in the Spot News stories category of the 2016 World Press Photo awards. Forced to leave Syria in 2018, al-Doumy, 24, is a staff photographer at the AFP office in Lille and covers northern France The work of AFP photographers will be on display at the 34th edition of the Visa Pour L’Image - International Photojournalism Festival in Perpignan from 26 August to 11 September. #photojournalism #phot...