World Press Photo - 2016 Photo ContestWhere the Children SleepPeople , third prize storiesby Magnus Wennman , Sweden One is missing his bed . Another , her doll with the dark eyes . A third is dreaming himself back to a time when his pillow was not an enemy . The war in Syria has continued for almost five years and more than two million children are fleeing the war , within and outside of the country borders . They have left their friends , their homes , and their beds behind . A few of these children offered to show where they sleep now , when everything that once was no longer exists . 한 소년 은 그 가 잠자 던 침대 를 , 어떤 소녀 는 그녀 가 가지 고 놀 던 검 은 눈 의 인형 을 그리워 합니다 . 또 다른 아이 는 그 가 베 고 자 던 베개 가 원망 스럽 지 않 았 던 그 때로 돌아가 는 꿈 을 꿉니다 . 시리아 내전 은 근 5 년 이 지속 되 고 있 고 , 2 백만 이상 의 어린 아이 들 이 국경 안 밖 에서 전쟁 을 피해 도망다니 고 있 습니다 . 이 아이 들 은 친구 들 과 고향 집 , 그리고 그 들 의 침대 를 뒤 에 남겨 두 고 떠났 습니다 . 아이 들 에게 익숙 했 던 모든 것 이 더 이상 존재 하 지 않 은 시간 에 , 아이 들 몇 명 이 지금 그 들 이 자 고 있 는 곳 이 어떤 곳 인지 를 보여 주 고 있 습니다 . ... translated by 구포 February 4 , 2015 - Fara , 2 , loves soccer . Her dad tries to make balls for her by crumpling up anything he can find , but they don ’ t last long . Every night , he says goodnight to Fara and her big sister Tisam , 9 , in the hope that tomorrow will bring them a proper ball to play with . All other dreams seem to be beyond his reach , but he is not giving up on this one . March 3 , 2015 - Mohammed , 13 , loves houses . Back home , in Aleppo , he used to enjoy walking around the city looking at them . Now , many of his favourite buildings are gone , blown to pieces . Lying in his hospital bed , he wonders whether he will ever fulfill his dream of becoming an architect . " The strangest thing about war is that you get used to feeling scared . I wouldn ’ t have believed that , " says Mohammed . September 15 , 2015 - Back home in Baghdad , the dolls , the toy train , and the ball are left ; Lamar often talks about these items when home is mentioned . The bomb changed everything . The family was on its way to buy food when it was dropped close to their house . It was not possible to live there anymore , says Lamar ’ s grandmother , Sara . After two attempts to cross the sea from Turkey in a small , rubber boat , they succeeded in coming here to Hungary ’ s closed border . Now Lamar sleeps on a blanket in the forest , scared , frozen , and sad . February 4 , 2015 - Iman , 2 , has pneumonia and a chest infection . This is her third day in this hospital bed . She sleeps most of the time now . Normally she is a happy little girl , but now she is tired . She runs everywhere when she is well . She loves playing in the sand , says her mother Olah , 19 . February 8 , 2015 - Ralia , 7 , and Rahaf , 13 , live on the streets of Beirut . They are from Damascus , where a grenade killed their mother and brother . Along with their father , they have been sleeping rough for a year . They huddle close together on their cardboard boxes . Rahaf says she is scared of “ bad boys , ” at which Ralia starts crying . February 10 , 2015 - Walaa , 5 , wants to go home . She had her own room in Aleppo , she tells us . There , she never used to cry at bedtime . Here , in the refugee camp , she cries every night . Resting her head on the pillow is horrible , she says , because nighttime is horrible . That was when the attacks happened . By day , Walaa ’ s mother often builds a little house out of pillows , to teach her that they are nothing to be afraid of . January 1 , 2015 - It is after midnight when Ahmed falls asleep in the grass . The adults are still sitting around , formulating plans for how they are going to get out of Hungary without registering themselves with the authorities . Ahmed is six years old and carries his own bag over the long stretches that his family walks by foot . He is brave and only cries sometimes in the evenings , says his uncle , who has taken care of Ahmed since his father was killed in their hometown in northern Syria . September 15 , 2015 - In the very front , just alongside the border between Serbia and Hungary by the 4 - meter - high iron gate , one - year - old Sham is laying in his mother ’ s arms . Just a few decimeters behind them is the Europe they so desperately are trying to reach . only one day before , the last refugees were allowed through and taken by train to Austria . But Sham and his mother arrived too late , along with thousands of other refugees who now wait outside the closed Hungarian border . Magnus Wennman Born in Sweden in 1979 , Magnus Wennman has been working as a photojournalist since the age of 17 when he started his career with a local Swedish newspaper , DalaDemokraten . Since 2001 he has worked as a staff photographer on Scandinavia ’ s biggest daily paper , Aftonbladet . Magnus concentrates mainly on news and feature stories and has worked in more than 60 countries around the world . He has covered a number of stories including the 2008 US Presidential elections , the Red Shirt protests in Thailand , and the plight of refugees in Africa . He has won prestigious photo awards , both in Sweden and internationally , including two World Press Photo awards , 14 Picture of the Year international awards , 11 NPPAs Best of Journalism awards , and 39 Swedish Picture of the Year awards . He has been awarded " Photojournalist of the year " in Sweden four times .