Kashmir
I cannot see you today
While I was in Srinagar, I couldn’t meet anyone.
I walked around the city. I visited the landmarks of the Kashmiri resistance: buildings, streets and squares whose political, cultural and spiritual significance I had been told about. I revisited places of past meetings where a friend had shared his family history with me. I stopped to observe from outside the houses of people I could no longer meet, their boats moored on Lake Dal.
Peru
The discipline of the territory
Chapter I: Pukllay, Q’eros’ carnival
«I know you can't feel it the way I feel it, I'm a little sorry for that... I am inside these things and they are inside me. They are me and I am them, and I cannot leave them, I have to come back here, I have to keep on being here». – German Chura
Peru
The still arrow in the forest with no trees
«These arrows are not symbolic. I have been hunting animals forever, with these arrows I can kill». – Jorge Puente
Indonesia
Awakening, the memory of a genocide
«We must remember. We must remember so that these things won’t happen again. It is not a cliché. I’ve seen people getting killed. I’ve seen them! They die because we don’t remember the past, because we forgot everything». – Febriana Firdaus
Italy
The Guardians of the Mountain
«If it was not for us [shepherds], the Aspromonte would now be in ashes». – Domenica Romeo
Romania
Danube delta
«And isn't Russia Europe?» I ask Andrei.
«Russia is shit, man,» he replies, laughing and squeezing my shoulder in his hand. He stands on his toes.
«Trust me, I've seen the U.S.S.R., and you haven't.»