by Margot Lubbers
“Sometimes I think about him so much, I feel sick,” Lamin says about his son Backary, the smile on his face a stark contrast with the statement itself. Lamin has not seen his son for seven years, since fleeing Gambia to Southern Italy as a political refugee. The Unseen (2026), a first work by Milou Rientjes and Niek Pennings, documents his life and those of two other migrants.