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The Dream Boat

Luke Mogelson

The New York Times Magazine

  • 2014 |
  • Article |
  • INTERNATIONAL REPORTING |
  • LIVINGSTON AWARD |
  • WINNER |

Posing as Georgian asylum seekers, Luke Mogelson and photographer Joel Van Houdt, paid smugglers for passage from Kabul to Jakarta to the Australian territory of Easter Island. Fifty-seven refugees, including nine children, endured a three-day journey on an unseaworthy 30-foot vessel. Mogelson describes the desperation of people willing to risk their lives to reach a country that will likely turn them away.

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