Saints – Witness

In the fall of 2012, my involvement in an unrelated work brought me to Victoria Square, in downtown Athens. In these early stages, my goal was to capture the everyday life of the children — most of them refugees from Afghanistan — that worked and played on the square. It quickly became about much more than that. It became about childhood — that broken mirror image of adult life — and the forces tearing it apart: fragility and unconstrained freedom, the brutal violence of war and the instinctive expression of child’s play.