Most people don’t remember the Cypriot crisis anymore, but for years it was a flashpoint between Russia and the United States, Turks and Greeks. Above, mothers of Cypriot refugees held up photos of their missing relatives at a demonstration in Melbourne, Australia in 1995, photographed by 17-year-old Ashley Gilbertson, passing by on the way to taking pictures of his friends doing tricks on their skateboards. He never made it to the park; he stayed with those mothers, trying to understand why no one seemed to care. Since then he’s devoted his life to photographing refugees; today, he says Manus Island makes him ashamed to be Australian. (Ashley Gilbertson/VII)
The Daily Office 
