Tens of thousands of life jackets abandoned by refugees fleeing wars in the Middle East and beyond, lay in piles in a landfill in Molyvos, Lesbos, Greece on March 15, 2016. "I visited the site where they were dumping all the life jackets ... there were hundreds of thousands of them just piled everywhere," Ell told CBC Radio's Mainstreet Halifax. (Roger Lemoyne)Dan Conlin, the curator of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, worked with Ell and LeMoyne to put the exhibit together. One of his other favourites is the portrait of a Syrian refugee named Hala in Montreal. Hala, a Syrian refugee, used to panic when planes flew overhead in Montreal.
