Barat Ali Batoor: My desperate journey with a human smuggler

"Barat Ali Batoor: My desperate journey with a human smuggler" was filmed in April 2014 at TEDxSydney.

Summary
"Photojournalist Barat Ali Batoor was living in Afghanistan — until his risky work forced him to leave the country. But for Batoor, a member of a displaced ethnic group called the Hazara, moving home to Pakistan proved dangerous too. And finding a safer place wasn't as simple as buying a plane ticket. Instead, he was forced to pay a human smuggler, and join the deadly tidal wave of migrants seeking asylum by boat. He documents the harrowing ocean trip with powerful photographs." – Source: TED

TED Links

 * Barat Ali Batoor
 * Subtitles and Transcript

Press

 * Dandenong award-winning photographer Barat Ali Batoor invited to speak about refugee journey at April 26 TEDx conference in Sydney (April 14, 2014), Herald Sun