Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos is the largest refugee camp in Europe. It is overcrowded and the living conditions are inhumane. Moria was intended to house 3˙000 people, but reached a peak of  20˙000 last summer. In September 2020, a fire destroyed the camp and about 7˙000 people were forced to move to a new camp. In Kara Tepe/Mavrouni, better known as Moria 2, conditions have deteriorated dramatically. Human rights are violated on a daily basis. Journalists and photographers are not allowed to enter the new camp while emergency workers are instructed not to take photos: the visibility of the camp in international media has thus been reduced to almost zero. However, visibility is key to driving change.

Now You See Me Moria was started in August 2020 by Amir, a young Afghan refugee living in Moria Camp and Noemí, a Spanish image editor, who lives and works in the Netherlands. In an effort to make people in Europe aware of the inhumane situation in Moria, they launched an Instagram account sharing photos and stories about the daily life in the camp. https://www.instagram.com/now_you_see_me_moria/?hl=de
In Fall 2020, Qutaiba from Syria and Ali from Afghanistan joined us. Like no one else, these photographers are capable of portraying the intimate everyday world of the residents as they themselves are part of it. Most of the photos are made with a cell phone and the depicted refugees, including many children are not recognizable for safety reasons. 

In January 2021, the collective organized a call to raise awareness of the situation in Moria. They invited designers from all over the world to create posters based on the photos taken in the camps. The response was overwhelming: over 449 graphic designers responded to the Love for Moria call. The promotion resulted in 449 different posters that were downloaded and printed on Valentine’s Day, to be visible on windows and walls in countless places in Europe. Since then the posters started to appear everywhere in Europe. The campaign also intended to depict anger and impotence and is an image of the failing European refugee policy.

In collaboration with Paradox, the collective Now You See Me Moria created an ACTION BOOK with all the posters. The book through its design and structure invites to be shared rather than kept, in order to spread the message further. The ACTION BOOK was designed by Raul Gottschling and Christian Knöpfel.

All those involved in this project cooperate on a voluntary basis. It is an internationally growing (citizen) movement – to which more and more social organizations and individuals are joining in order to bring the inhumane conditions in Moria into light and include them to the political agenda with the aim of immediate evacuation of the camps and a change in the European migration policy.

The exhibition at KASKO is a cooperation with the collective Now You See Me Moria shows for first time the project in Switzerland and aims to bring more visibility and awareness on the current refugee situation around Europe. 
Organised by Yota, Lysann and Noemí. 
Supported by Druckkollektiv Phönix.

More Infos about the project at:
https://nowyouseememoria.eu/