a million shillings - escape from somalia, is a new exhibition on view by alixandra fazzina at the national museum of kenya. as a photojournalist who spent 2 years documenting in somalia, which has been in civil war since 1991, she shares the stories of emigrants who must pay $50 or (million shillings) to be smuggled out of the country. the sad reality is that only 1 and 20 of them actually survive the journey. 

a million shillings - escape from somalia, is a new exhibition on view by alixandra fazzina at the national museum of kenya. as a photojournalist who spent 2 years documenting in somalia, which has been in civil war since 1991, she shares the stories of emigrants who must pay $50 or (million shillings) to be smuggled out of the country. the sad reality is that only 1 and 20 of them actually survive the journey. 


a million shillings - escape from somalia, is a new exhibition on view by alixandra fazzina at the national museum of kenya. as a photojournalist who spent 2 years documenting in somalia, which has been in civil war since 1991, she shares the stories of emigrants who must pay $50 or (million shillings) to be smuggled out of the country. the sad reality is that only 1 and 20 of them actually survive the journey. 

a million shillings - escape from somalia, is a new exhibition on view by alixandra fazzina at the national museum of kenya. as a photojournalist who spent 2 years documenting in somalia, which has been in civil war since 1991, she shares the stories of emigrants who must pay $50 or (million shillings) to be smuggled out of the country. the sad reality is that only 1 and 20 of them actually survive the journey. 


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