Refugee Crisis: The Journey. Image 2 of 3. About 2,000 people a day crossed the Mediterranean into Greece last month—more than the number for all of January 2015. TIME contract photographer James Nachtwey, who has documented the movement of refugees for more those displaced by war and other disasters for more than three decades, said this is unlike anything he has previously covered. “I’ve never seen this before,” he says. In this photograph, a man spreads his arms in a bid to defuse tensions between asylum seekers and police at a demonstration at the Macedonian border. Find out more on LightBox.time.com.