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Book - Say Goodbye Before You Leave. 

Enri Canaj 

Following the Arab Spring, this project started documenting the first boats with migrants on board reaching the EU waters in 2013, and was completed in 2020 with the last episodes of the tragic fire in Moria refugee reception center in Lesbos, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. It combines images of migration throughout various stages, showing people’s arrivals, the first years of the ones who made it to their destinations, and the situations of those who are still waiting on the other side.
I have been documenting people’s journeys for several years, moving from one country to the other in step with... 

Enri Canaj 2016

GREECE. Lesbos. 01 November 2016. Aegean Sea. 

Enri Canaj 2015

GREECE. Lesbos. October 2015. A small boat with refugees and... 

Enri Canaj 2016

GREECE. Lesbos. 30 September 2016. Life jackets left behind by... 

Enri Canaj 2020

GREECE. Samos. July 2020. A young Syrian boy came out of the... 

Enri Canaj 2020

Greece. Lesbos. 2020. After bathing at the Aegean sea Manija... 

Enri Canaj 2018

GERMANY. Berlin. 27 January 2018. Syrian wedding preparations... 

Enri Canaj 2018

SWEDEN. 04 March 2018. Hamudi dancing in a nightclub popular... 

Enri Canaj 2015

GREECE. Northern Greece. 27 June 2015. Hiding from police patrol.... 

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GREECE. 16 March 2016. Syrian refugees found shelter at the Idomeni... 

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SWEDEN. 04 March 2018. Hamudi sought refuge in Sweden after facing... 

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GERMANY. 26 January 2018. A group of teenagers from Syria partying... 

Enri Canaj 2015

MACEDONIA. Gevgelija. August 2015. Children refugees rest in... 

Enri Canaj 2017

GREECE. Athens. 22 November 2017. A., bringing her son to the... 

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SERBIA. Doljevac. 11 October 2017. Fateme and Ahmed during their... 

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GERMANY. Wurzen. 31 January 2018. Mohammed, 28, Fatima, 21, and... 

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GREECE. Idomeni. March 2016. A volunteer distributes food to... 

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GREECE. Lesbos. 29 September 2015. Refugees wait to board ferry... 

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SWEDEN. 20 September 2018. Ahmed, 6, from Afghanistan, in his... 

Enri Canaj 2018

GERMANY. Berlin. 25 January 2018. New home. 

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GREECE. Lesbos. 06 October 2015. Asylum seekers waiting in line... 

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GREECE. Lesbos. October 2015. At the Moria camp, refugees sleep... 

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ITALY. Porto Recanati. August, 2018. Lo Mamadane 57 years old,... 

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ITALY. Porto Recanati. August, 2018. Binta 12 years old, was... 

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GREECE. Lesbos. October 2015. Refugees wrapped themselves with... 

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GREECE. Lesbos. November 2015. Because of the bad sea, the journey... 

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ITALY. Foggia. June 2018. A Nigerian women holding her 2 months... 

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ITALY. 19 July 2018. Riace, Calabria. Eva, 25, from Nigeria.... 

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SERBIA. 23 January 2016. On the road from Serbia toward Croatia.... 

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SERBIA. January 2016. Women from Afghanistan travel by train... 

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GERMANY. 02 February 2018. Celine, 16, from Chemnitz. For one... 

Enri Canaj 2018

FRANCE. Paris. 06 May 2018. A young couple from Syria hosted... 

Enri Canaj 2016

SERBIA. January 2016. Reaching the northern Serbian town of Sid.... 

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SERBIA. 12 August 2015. Inside the train towards the unknown.... 

Enri Canaj 2018

GERMANY. 02 February 2018. The daughter of a neo-Nazi supporter,... 

Enri Canaj 2018

ITALY. Castel Volturno. July 2018. Ghanaian migrant at his apartment... 

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GREECE. Idomeni. March 2016. Refugees stand in line to get food.... 

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GREECE. Idomeni. December 2015. At the greek-macedonian border.... 

Enri Canaj 2018

GERMANY. Ostritz, Saxony. April, 2018. A handicapped Neo-Nazi... 

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GERMANY. Berlin. 26 January 2018. Syrian/German young couples.... 

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GREECE. Lesbos. March 2016. Life jackets on a small hill. 

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GREECE. Idomeni. March 2016. Refugees wait near the railway station,... 

Enri Canaj 2018

SWEDEN. 09 March 2018. 

Enri Canaj 2018

SWEDEN. 09 March 2018. Refugee families settling into vacant... 

Enri Canaj 2014

GREECE. Inousa. September 2014. Syrian mother holds her 4-month-old... 

Enri Canaj 2015

GREECE. Idomeni. June 2015. Abdifatah, 21, from Somalia. His... 

Enri Canaj 2018

ITALY. South Italy. 07 June 2018. Family home. 

Enri Canaj 2018

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA 

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GREECE. Idomeni. December 2015. Macedonian Army engineers build... 

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NORTH MACEDONIA. 05 May 2015. Idomeni train station. 

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BELGIUM. Brussels. 10 May 2018. On cold winters days, many homeless... 

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ITALY. Rome. 06 July 2018. 

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GREECE. Northern Greece. 10 May 2015. Hiding from police patrol.... 

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GREECE/NORTH MACEDONIA. Borderline. 31 May 2015. 

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ITALY. 12 July 2018. P. was trafficked from Nigeria and obliged... 

Enri Canaj 2018

ITALY. Castel volturno. 14 July 2018. Smoking. 

Enri Canaj 2015

GREECE. Idomeni. 12 August 2015. 

Enri Canaj 2019

NIGER. Agadez. 2019. Goffat, a new gold mine 15 km from the city... 

Enri Canaj 2017

GREECE. 20 October 2017. 

Enri Canaj 2018

SWEDEN. 22 September 2018. Ahmed. 

Enri Canaj 2019

NIGER. Agadez. 14 February 2019. "The Desert Entrance". 
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