Nicosia October 2019. I spent my time zig-zagging along Nicosia’s green line, in & out of the European Union through checkpoints dividing Greek & Turkish areas.
In my photographic wanderings, I discovered people of varying origins & cultures, speaking a variety of languages - Arabic, Russian, Tagalog, Tamil, Sinhala, Vietnamese ... and naturally, Greek, Turkish & English, people searching new lives, new identities. At the same time, I kept running into concrete walls, oil-barrel barricades and dead-ends.
Could Nicosia shed its label of divided city and become a “liquid city”? Could the Greek and Turkish sides ever be reunited? Could there be hope in this supposed “world after”? As its inhabitants break down social barriers, party and pray together perhaps a brave, tolerant and ethnically-diverse world will emerge?
Anything is possible.