PARADISE LOST: EXILE

Exile as a practice has been used for millennia by societies and ruling regimes against political dissidents and criminals. A practice utilised by ancient societies has never been found to be completely left in the past, where some may argue, it belongs.

The twentieth-century has seen the practice of exile being used all over the world. The Eastern Mediterranean is just one place wherein exile spread as a means to solate and contain contradictory, and therefore problematic, political opponents to their respective institutionalised governmental regimes.

Goli Otok, Makronisos, Ikaria, Lipari and Ventotene a series of islands that faced this form of oppression.

This is their story.