After 6 months of photographing volunteers and volunteering myself in the Calais Jungle, old camp and new camp near Dunkirk, I put up this photo documentary about life in the refugee camps and the tireless work of the Hummingbird Project volunteers, a Brighton led community group started by Elaine Ortiz.
To know more and support the Hummingbird Project: hummingbirdproject.org.uk
I am most thankful to one of my favourite musicians Fantastic Negrito for the permission to rewrite his Lost in a Crowd song and adopt it for the documentary, and very proud of my friends and Brighton musicians CMD/Ctrl and Sharon Lewis for giving their time and talent into recording the song.
Rewritten lyrics below. See original lyrics here.
Hmmmmm Hmmmm Keep On Humming
Lost in a crowd
You feel your thoughts out loud
Lost in the wilderness of the camp
Get through the day, don't drown
Mud to your knees, hope is gone
Feeling so lost
(Come on, grieve, move on)
Stuck in the shadows of a life
That you tried to leave behind
Hmmmmm Hmmmm Keep On Humming
And we're humming, lord we're humming
For tomorrow
Neither one of us, no neither one of us
Wants the sorrow
'Cause we're people
The same people
You and I.
Just like all Hummingbirds, I will continue to do what I can.
I will #BeInTheirShoes and #KeepOnHumming.
Sincerely humming,
Jeta B
beintheirshoes.com
