DARIUSZ KALAN
Follow me, there must be some way out of here

Since January 2018, more than 23,000 migrants and asylum-seekers have arrived in Bosnia and Herzegovina. To get the whole picture, I visited two refugee camps in Bihac, northwestern Bosnia, where I talked to migrants, their opponents in the town and aid workers. This photo was taken in the Borici camp, a former dormitory. At that time, Borici offered three stories of concrete floors, rough walls, and broken windows. Located on a hill next to a football stadium and a supermarket, it looked like a gothic mansion. Inside, tents were put up everywhere—not only in what used to be rooms but also in the middle of the corridors or on the stairs. There was no electricity or hot water, and most rooms lacked doors. My story was published in the Foreign Policy magazine, and was supported with the grant from Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Author
Dariusz Kalan is a Bratislava-based freelance correspondent covering Central Europe. With an extensive contact book, he has interviewed prime ministers, corporate executives, activists and intellectuals, reporting from almost everywhere south to his hometown Warsaw. His work appears in Foreign Policy, World Politics Review, Euronews, OZY Magazine, Foreign Affairs, among other English-language outlets. He is also a regular contributor to Poland's most widely circulated weeklies: Polityka and Tygodnik Powszechny. In the past, he held individual fellowships in Budapest and Bratislava (twice), and the 2014 Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship at Georgetown University in Washington DC. In late 2018, he received grant from Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting for a project on media discrimination in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Website
https://www.clippings.me/dkalan

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