Idomeni

Idomeni

Dimitris Rapakousis

The old name of Idomeni was Sehovo. Located on the border with Macedonia, Sehovo is the last village of the ‘Greek’ railway tracks. In 1936, the village was renamed Idomeni, as it happened to thousands of Greek villages so as to bury the past, illustrating how borders are defined by the powerful according to their needs and interests.

Idomeni serves as a reminder that borders are drawn to the detriment of people. The border divided families, friends, siblings, parents and children; not Greeks from Macedonians, but people born and raised within different borders. The refugees, mostly Syrians as well as Afghans exiled by war and other nationals, concentrated in Idomeni since 2014. More than 16.000 people concentrated in a distance of 20km along the border, up to the wired fence and the ‘door’ that divided the ‘lucky’ from the ‘unlucky’.

?he forest where thousands of refugees slept.
?very night the borders were opened for a small number of refugees.
A man walking in the camp.
Refugee carrying all his belongings.
Woman in her tent, which has served as her home for a long time.
Mothers with their children traversing a large field to cross the border.
Syrian refugees are resting in a field near the border.
Next to the border of Greece and North Macedonia, this mother is cooking for her child.
Refugees waiting to enter northern Macedonia.
Refugees facing the fence separating Greece from North Macedonia.
Refugees try to cross the border into northern Macedonia.
Refugees in queue for dinner.
Refugees hiding in wait for the train to Central Europe.
Father carrying his child has just arrived in Idomeni after a long walk.
Unaccompanied minor on the railway.
Laundry in the forest.
Syrian refugee taking a shower.
Syrian refugee crossing the borders from Greece to North Macedonia.
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