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.