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Klappentext How does it feel to leave the safety of home and not be able to return?How do you survive at subsistence level?What is life like for a child who is forced to flee from his home?What is it like to live in constant fear for your life and of losing those close to you?For almost seven years, photographer Espen Rasmussen has travelled the world to document refugeesand displaced people. The book TRANSIT tells the stories of some of the 43.2 million people on the runin the world today. From the makeshift camps in DR Congo to the slums of Colombia, the book presentsstories of everyday life and the challenges displaced people and refugees meet every day, no matter inwhich country or which continent they find themselves.Espen Rasmussen is picture editor at Norway¿s biggest newspaper VG. He constantly works ondocumentary projects, and has focussed particularly on social issues and climate change. For the lastseven years he has worked on this long term project TRANSIT. Rasmussen has worked with NGOs, suchas Médecins Sans Frontières, the Norwegian Refugee Council and the UNHCR, as well as on stories forVG. He has won many awards for his work, including two at World Press Photo, seven at Pictures of theYear International and twenty six in the Norwegian Picture of the Year. In 2008, Photo District News(USA) named him one of the most promising young photographers in the world. His work has beenexhibited widely, both in Norway and internationally.
