“Taking photographs of the place came without much of a plan. I wasn’t looking back; we could hardly see ahead – we just hovered in the actual moment. I did not photograph the cutting edge, where the challenge was turning into asymmetric conflict, the expressions of discontent, the picket lines, the sense of justice on one side, raw power on the other. But I could witness how the social order had reached a key junction. This lack of an agenda was not a dilemma at the time. The camera had two purposes: it was a connection with a new life and a shield that enabled me to look at it. The camera gives an entitlement to stare and provides an excuse to be in the way. It offers an outsider a chance to belong. Photographs bring together personal stories with fleeting moments in history.”