New Book Shares Stories from the European Migration Crisis

Kenny Karpov is a documentary storyteller who went to conflict regions to photograph and record what was happening. The stories in his new book capture the difficult paths of refugees.

Kenny Karpov
Kenny Karpov

Detroit photographer Kenny Karpov spent more than four years documenting the migration crisis in the Mediterranean.

Now, he aims to tell the stories of the refugees he encountered in a new book called “Despite It All We Never Learn.”

“In Libya alone, there’s human rights violations everywhere, there’s mass incarceration, there’s human trafficking. People take the journey regardless.” – Kenny Karpov, photographer

You can pre-order the book here.

Click on the player above to hear Kenny Karpov discuss how he began working as a photographer in the Mediterranean.

Author

  • Amanda LeClaire is an award-winning host and producer of CultureShift on 101.9 WDET-FM Detroit’s NPR station. She’s a founding producer of WDET’s flagship news talk show Detroit Today, and a former host/reporter for Arizona Public Media. Amanda is also an artist, certified intuitive and energy healer, and professional tarot reader.