I was there as a witness — among the people, in the streets I have always known.

These photographs were taken during a public ceremony, a collective moment that belonged to a nation in transition.

My intention was not to define or interpret, but to observe;

to be present with my camera in the space where personal and collective histories briefly touch. 

What remains in these images is not ideology, but atmosphere —

gestures, faces, and movements that belong to a time and a place I share.

They are fragments of witnessing, drawn from the landscape I come from.