Portraiture finalist On 1 August 2016, 118 people were rescued from a rubber boat drifting in the Mediterranean. Cesar Dezfuli photographed the passengers minutes after their rescue. Over the last three years, he has tried to locate the 118 people, now scattered across Europe, in an effort to understand and document their true identities, as well as show that each person just needed a peaceful context in order to flourish again

Photograph: Cesar Dezfuli