Citation: The Oliver Rebbot Award 2016

Citation Year: 2016
Citation Recipient: Aris Messinis
Affiliation: Agence France Presse
Honored Work: “Desperate Journey”
 


Migrants on a rubber boat wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya, on October 4, 2016. Photo: Aris Messinis

Migrants Jump from a boat as they wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO as they drift in the Mediterranean Sea, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya, on October 4, 2016. Photo: Aris Messinis

Migrants try to pull a child out of the water as they wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya, on October 4, 2016. Photo: Aris Messinis

A migrant is rescued from the Mediterranean Sea by a member of Proactiva Open Arms NGO some 20 nautical miles north of Libya on October 3, 2016. Photo: Aris Messinis

Migrants step over dead bodies while being rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya, on October 4, 2016. Photo: Aris Messinis

Migrants on a wooden boat wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya, on October 4, 2016. Photo: Aris Messinis

Dead bodies lie on the bottom of a wooden boat while survivors are rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya, on October 4, 2016. Photo: Aris Messinis

Migrants wait to be rescued as they drift in the Mediterranean Sea some 20 nautical miles north off the coast of Libya on October 3, 2016. Photo: Aris Messinis

A child is held aloft as migrants wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya, on October 4, 2016. Photo: Aris Messinis

A child is rescued by a member of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean sea some 20 nautical miles north of Libya on October 3, 2016. Photo: Aris Messinis

A life boat carrying the bodies of 29 refugees and migrants, who died on a rubber boat north of Libya while crossing the Mediterranean Sea, is dragged by a ship from the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms on October 5, 2016. Photo: Aris Messinis

Members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO move a dead body during a rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya, on October 4, 2016. Photo: Aris Messinis