His journey began in Guinea, on the west coast of Africa, as his mother packed her bags and set out in hope of a better life. It ended in frigid winter waters off Libya, when the rubber dinghy carrying the two of them sank beneath the waves. Joseph was just six months old, one victim of a tragedy that has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of asylum seekers making the perilous crossing from North Africa to Europe. Many of those deaths were anonymous and unrecorded by the outside world. But Joseph’s fate was recorded on a distressing video in which his mother screams for her baby as rescuers from an NGO desperately searched for him among the waves.