Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Photographer captures dramatic images of migrants rescued at sea
More than 11,000 African migrants were rescued trying to cross the Mediterranean this week. A photographer on one of the boats off Libya’s coast captured a dramatic rescue.
By Madeleine Brand • • 51m ListenAntónio Guterres, who spent 10 years as the UN’s refugee chief, has been picked to become the next Secretary General of the UN. Meanwhile, more than 11,000 African migrants were rescued trying to cross the Mediterranean this week. Aris Messinis is a photographer with Agence France Presse who was on one of the rescue boats off the Libyan coast this week. His pictures of the ordeal appear in the New York Times in a photo essay titled “Stepping Over the Dead on a Migrant Boat.”
