Cesar Dezfuli Passenger Libya Refugee Disaster Ship Rescue Postcard

POAP18  This is a specialist modern postcard by Cesar Dezfuli called Passenger of a refugee that was saved in an Libya boat rescue (see below) & was the chosen photo by Cesar of all the refugees he had captured on camera he used to enter the annual photographers awards of Charity London with details on reverse of this unique collectors souvenir unused and mint.

"On 1st August 2016, 118 people were rescued from a rubber boat drifting in the Mediterranean Sea. The boat had departed some hours prior from Libya. In an attempt to give a human face to this event, I photographed the passengers minutes after their rescue. Their faces, their looks, the marks on their bodies all reflected the mood and physical state they were in after a journey that had already marked their lives forever. It was the beginning of a project that has been evolving ever since. It soon became clear that the people I photographed on that August day were not themselves. Their identities had become diluted somewhere along the way - hidden as a result of fear, or stolen through past abuses and humiliations. Over the last three years I have worked to locate the 118 passengers of the boat, now scattered across Europe, in a bid to understand and document their true identities. I wanted to show that each individual had a latent identity that just needed a peaceful context in order to flourish again. "