A series from two refugee camps in Eastern Chad, The Breijing
Camp (roughly 27000 people when I was there) and Farchana Camp (roughly 17000).
In theory these are all Sudanese refugees from Darfur although you would hear
about the odd Chadian who had also somehow registered and was living in the
camp. The reality is that the existence in these camps was better than that
in the average rural Chadian village.
One of the most shocking things for a newcomer like me was the normalcy of the
camps and the very humble resilience of the refugees. It's not all 'crushed
defeat' and 'desperate horror' although that exists. But people also get happy,
sad, confused, hopeful, married, angry and so on.
These photos are a tiny glimpse of some of the people who did this and where they did it from November
2005 until August 2006. I took them while in the region with Medecins Sans Frontieres as a logisitician.