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Fleeing Children's Sleeping Portraits Haunt

Photographer Magnus Wennman highlights the plight of millions of migrant children by documenting them as they sleep, when they are their most vulnerable.
Image: Magnus Wennman: Where the children Sleep - 27 Sep 2015
Lamar, 5, sleeping on the ground in Horgos, Serbia -- Back home in Baghdad the dolls, the toy train, and the ball are left; Lamar often talks about these items when home is mentioned. The bomb changed everything. The family was on its way to buy food when it was dropped close to their house. It was not possible to live there anymore, says Lamar's grandmother, Sara. After two attempts to cross the sea from Turkey in a small, rubber boat they succeeded in coming here to Hungary's closed border. Now Lamar sleeps on a blanket in the forest, scared, frozen, and sad.Magnus Wennman / Aftonbladet via REX Shutterstock