Darrin Zammit Lupi photojournalism archive, 2002-2025

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Summary

Creator:
Lupi, Darrin Zammit
Abstract:
Darrin Zammit Lupi is an award-winning photojournalist based in Malta whose work often focuses on issues related to refugees, immigration, migrants, and disasters in Europe and globally. The collection includes five bodies of documentary work with 100 photographic prints and approximately 20,000 digital files of low-resolution and full resolution images, video, supporting journalistic documents and data, and web archived content of Zammit Lupi's website. The "Malta Detention" project consists of color photographs taken between 2004-2013 of African migrants and asylum seekers in Malta detention camps. The "On Board the MV Aquarius" project comprises color photographs and materials compiled in December 2017 while on board a migrant search and rescue ship operated by the non-profit organizations SOS Méditerranée and Médecins sans frontières. "Journeys of Hope-Refugees in the Balkans" includes color photographs and files created in 2016 while documenting migrants and refugees in the Balkans. "Migrants within the Maltese Community" project entails color photographs and files compiled between 2002-2018 documenting the circumstances of migrants once they leave transitional housing or "open centers." The "Migrants at the Ukraine/Poland Border" includes mostly black-and-white prints alongside color images and other digital files documenting Ukrainian refugees after Russia's invasion in 2022. Acquired as part of the Human Rights Archive.
Extent:
6 Linear Feet
78.5 Gigabytes (approximately 20,000 digital files)
Language:
Materials are chiefly in English, with a few in French, Italian, Korean, Spanish, and other languages.
Research Center:
Human Rights Archive
Collection ID:
RL.11613

Background

Scope and content:

The Darrin Zammit Lupi photojournalism archive includes five bodies of documentary work and web archives comprising 100 photographic prints and approximately 20,000 digital files of low-resolution and full resolution images; videos; supporting documents and data for various projects; and web archived content of his website.

The "Malta Detention" project consists of twenty color inkjet prints taken by Zammit Lupi and over 1800 digital files of images, contact sheets, and news articles for his work on African migrants and asylum seekers in Malta detention camps between 2004-2013. The "On Board the Aquarius" project includes twenty color inkjet prints and over 4000 digital image files, documents, data, videos, news articles, and interviews compiled in December 2017 on board the migrant search and rescue ship operated by SOS Méditerranée and Médecins sans frontières, which rescued migrants in the Mediterranean Sea and arrived in Pozzallo, Sicily. The "Journeys of Hope-Refugees in the Balkans" project consists of twenty color photographs and over 5000 digital image files, documents, and news articles compiled in 2016 documenting migrants and refugees in Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, and Serbia on assignment for the Jesuit Refugee Service. "Migrants in the Maltese Community" includes twenty color inkjet prints and over 8000 digital image files, news stories, and videos documenting the circumstances of migrants once they leave transitional housing or "open centers" in Malta between 2002-2018. "Migrants at the Ukraine/Poland Border" includes twenty prints, mostly in black-and-white, and over 1800 digital files of low resolution images mostly in color, contact sheets, and documents related to Zammit Lupi's work documenting Ukrainian refugees traveling across the border between Ukraine and Poland after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Biographical / historical:

Darrin Zammit Lupi (born 1968) is an award-winning photojournalist based in Malta. He has documented conditions in Albania and the former Yugoslavia, the South-East Asia tsunami tragedy, the refugee crisis during the war in Kosovo, the earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy, the war in Libya, and immigration and migration in Europe. Zammit Lupi started his photography career with The Malta Independent in 1992, but decided to turn freelance shortly afterwards. Through his work, he has won the Malta Journalism Award for Press Photography seven times and for Sport Photography three times, as well as a special award for Creativity in Photojournalism. The Societies for Photographers in the United Kingdom named him Overall Photographer of the Year (2016), Media Photographer of the Year (2013), Documentary Photographer of the Year (2014), and Street Photographer of the Year (2016). His work for Reuters has been published in newspapers, magazines, books, and online worldwide.

Zammit Lupi holds a Master's Degree with Distinction in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from the University of the Arts, London. In 2014, he published Isle Landers, covering a decade's work on irregular immigration and asylum seekers in the Mediterranean that was exhibited in Malta, France, Luxembourg, and Australia. Some of Zammit Lupi's works are also in private collections and part of permanent collections at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Malta.

Source: "About" page, https://www.darrinzammitlupi.com/about, accessed November 15, 2019.

Acquisition information:
The Darrin Zammit Lupi photojournalism archive was received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a purchase From Darrin Zammit Lupi in 2018, 2019, 2022, 2024, and 2025.
Processing information:

Image titles, captions, and item descriptions were transcribed from original prints and provided data.

Processed by: Paula Jeannet and M. Farrell, September 2018 and November 2019-January 2020; Eliscia Kinder, 2022; Will Runyan, 2024; Tere Elizalde, January 2026.

Accessions described in this collection guide: 2018-0034, 2019-0075, 2022-0050, 2024-0054, 2025-0108.

Arrangement:

Arranged by project: Malta Detention; On Board the MV Aquarius; Journeys of Hope-Refugees in the Balkans; Migrants within the Maltese Community; Migrants at the Ukraine/Poland Border; Web Archives.

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Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Images may only be used for educational, non-commercial purposes; any other use requires the photographer's permission.

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