In 2010 she won the UNHCR's Nansen Refugee Award for her work documenting the effect of war on uprooted people.
Fazzina was born in East London but spent much of her childhood in the Netherlands because of her father's employment.
She studied fine art at the University of Bristol,[2] and in 1995, before she graduated, was appointed as an official war artist in Bosnia.
After Bosnia she spent much of the next seven years working in Africa, including Sierra Leone; she photographed the Lord's Resistance Army and their victims in Uganda, the Miya-Miya rebels in Democratic Republic of the Congo, and people-smuggling from Ethiopia and Somalia to the Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
[4][5] The title reflects the fare paid (about 50 pounds sterling) by refugees fleeing from Somalia and Ethiopia to get from Mogadishu to the coast of the Gulf of Aden and across to Yemen or Saudi Arabia.