They Lied
Brussels — 2021
One hundred thousand people don't take to the streets for nothing.
I was there. In the crowd, then in the chaos — when the black bloc arrived and the city erupted, I stayed at the heart of it, between the protesters and the riot police, camera in hand.
We were told many things during those years. What was safe. What was not. Who to trust. What to believe. The banner says it all: "La Vérité — On nous Ment." The truth. They lied to us.
I am not a political photographer. But I am a witness. And what I saw that day in Brussels — the anger, the fear, the sincerity of people who had simply had enough — deserved to be remembered.
This is what it looked like. Make up your own mind.