"The idea was to really soak in the atmosphere and get the details that you often miss when you do a story on deadline," writes Gersende Rambourg, deputy chief photo editor for France. "To take the time and take in the scenery, the noise, the smells. To give a real feel of the place. A sheep herder with an alpine mountain all to himself."

"Before there was hope because people were on their way to a new life. Now there is resignation and exhaustion because people are stuck here and they don’t know when they’ll leave," writes Louisa Gouliamaki, a photographer based in Athens, on the tens of thousands of refugees still stuck in Greece, four years after the peak of the migrant crisis.