← Erçin Ertürk. Syria, 2025. Shortly after the fall of dictator Assad, the first Syrians return to the city of Homs.
→ Emin Özmen. Greece, 2016. A group of men is having fun outdoors. They live in a refugee camp on the North Macedonia–Greece border. The children look on, laughing with delight.
This photobook is published on the occasion of the opening of Fenix on 16 May 2025. Fenix is the new art museum about migration in Rotterdam. The Family of Migrants is one of the three opening exhibitions.
Curator
Hanneke Mantel
Editing
Fien Post
Texts
Rim Battal
Rodaan Al Galidi
Stine Jensen
Asma Khan
Hanneke Mantel
Danny Ramadan
Anke Reitz
Joumana El Zein Khoury
C Pam Zhang
Translation Dutch-English
Helen Simpson
Copy-editing
Derek Scoins
Project management
Hadewych Van den Bossche
Design
Tim Bisschop
Natacha Hofman
Image editing
Martin Zwaan
Printing & binding
Printer Trento, Italy
Publisher
Gautier Platteau
© Hannibal Books, 2025 www.hannibalbooks.be
ISBN 978 94 6494 156 2
D/2025/11922/04
NUR 653
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any other information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher.
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www.fenix.nl
Fenix would like to thank everyone who assisted, made suggestions or contributed in any other way to the selection of photos for The Family of Migrants:
Jan Banning, Abdelkader Benali, Aaron Byrant, Yudit Caplan, Vanessa Cogdell Moore, Elizabeth Cronin, Ellen Dosse, Jonathan Eaker, Görkem Ergün, Frits Gierstberg, Andrea Holzherr, Daantje Hoogenboom, Cherie Huang, Chrischené Julius, Kashish Kochhar, Ernest van der Kwast, Stephen Lean, Melissa Lindberg, Sarah Little, Irene Lombardo, Nizar El Manouzi, Mina Mostefa, Adrian Murphy, Shibu Narayan, Hugh Nini, Cecile Ogink, Yasemin Özüye, Patricia Pince van der Aa, Tuana Pulak, Matea Šafar, Fethi Sahraoui, Cagla Sarac, Sheila Sitalsing, Tina Smith, Carolina Suaznabar, Ng Swan Ti, Naema Tahir, Neal Treadwell, Loes van Harrevelt, Wim van Sinderen, Wanda Waanders, Pete Wu, Çiğdem Yüksel, Daniella Zalcman
Agence VU’ (pp. 154–55)
akg-images (pp. 85, 189, 229)
ANP/DPA (pp. 44–45)
AP Photo (p. 79)
Ara Güler Museum (p. 41)
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek / stern-Fotoarchiv (pp. 102–03)
Conibeta GmbH (p. 188)
Die Photographische Sammlung, SK Stiftung Kultur / August Sander Archiv, Cologne / PICTORIGHT, Amsterdam (p. 245)
Exhibitions Fund, Centro de la Imagen Archive, Secretaría de Cultura, Mexico City (p. 203)
Fan Ho Trust and Estate (p. 84)
Getty Images (pp. 25, 31, 72, 92–93, 110–11, 127 below, 130–31, 147, 170–71, 182–83, 184, 191, 206–07, 214–15, 243, 268–69, 299)
Hans Lucas (p. 223)
Imogen Cunningham Trust (p. 227)
Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España, Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid (pp. 28–29)
Library of Congress (pp. 22, 23, 71, 225, 238, 282)
Magnum Photos (pp. 34–35, 39, 42–43, 46–47, 56–57, 66, 68–69, 86–87, 101, 108–09, 114, 120–21, 138–39, 140–41, 144–45, 148–49, 164, 165 above, 165 below, 167, 176–77, 178–79, 190, 195, 200, 201, 209, 216, 218–19, 234 above, 236–37, 246–47, 251, 252–53, 254–55, 256–57, 258, 261, 264–65, 266–67, 270–71, 276–77, 284–85, 286–87, 293, 295, 304–05, 308–09, 312, 315, 316–17)
Maria Austria Instituut (pp. 48, 77, 198–99, 272 below, 289, 294)
Nationaal Archief, The Hague (pp. 19, 288, 306–07)
Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (pp. 20–21, 32–33, 36–37, 82–83, 89, 151, 221, 250, 273, 301)
New York Public Library (pp. 202, 205, 259)
Reuters News Agency (pp. 118–19)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (p. 125)
Ruth Orkin Photo Archive (pp. 75, 127 above)
Shutterstock (pp. 76, 100, 143, 180–81, 239, 274–75)
The Mary Ellen Mark Foundation / Howard Greenberg Gallery (p. 126)
The Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore (p. 217)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York / Scala, Florence (pp. 10, 11, 88)
The Third Gallery Aya (pp. 64–65)
University of Louisville (p. 73)
Vancouver Public Library (pp. 128–29)
Zilberman Gallery (p. 91)
VII Photo/Redux (pp. 60–61, 106–07, 212–13)