what remains

Lesbos, 2021

one year after the fire

There are places where Europe’s promises end — not in policy or principle, but in tents, fences, and ash. Designed to hold around 3,000 people, Camp Moria at times housed more than 20,000. Sanitation collapsed. What was meant to be a registration center became, over time, a symbol of paralysis and neglect.

In September 2020, after years of overcrowding and rising tension, fires swept through Moria and reduced the camp to ruins. Thousands were left without shelter overnight.

This is not a story of sudden collapse, but of what happens when a system is allowed to fail in slow motion.

These images look at what remains — not only in physical traces, but in memory, in policy, and in the silence that followed.