For two weeks, Jacob Ehrbahn and Kjeld Hybel, photographer and journalist at the Danish daily Politiken, were on board a German rescue ship with volunteers from the NGO Sea-Watch. In several cases they were on board the motor boats that pick up desperate, exhausted refugees in open sea.
The video above was recorded with a camera attached to Jacob Ehrbahn’s helmet on that day when a rescue operation took a dramatic turn – and a pregnant woman drowned.
During the rescue mission he also took still photographs with his ordinary camera. But not many. Two of those pictures were part of a reporting that was published in Politiken, Sunday 18 June 2017.
The video at the top also includes an interview with Jacob Ehrbahn who, among other things, tells about a decision he made before boarding the ship Sea-Watch 2: If he was put in a situation in which he had to choose between taking a photo or help save a life, he would try to do the latter.