ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses ways in which newspaper photography represented the conditions of flight, people fleeing, and how we understand flight in a more localised socio-historical context in Germany and describes the dominant discourses depicting flight and constructing ‘refugeeness’. It focuses on the case of Germany and ask, How were asylum seekers and refugees portrayed in the German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung during the so-called “refugee crisis” of 2015? and provides a summary of the state of affairs relating to the ‘photography of flight’ found in one of the German daily newspapers. In line with Lawrence Wright, many refugees are portrayed as people with few belongings, walking, or waiting. Often they are accompanied by their means of transport – the overcrowded trains and train stations, rail tracks, boats, sea shores and ports. The chapter aims to highlight the criminalisation of flight through visual representation. The presence of walls, barbwires and police is recurring theme in the examined photographs.
