An image from the photography project 'We are the resistance' by Saad Eltinay, featured in blume magazine Issue 001

We are the resistance

Saad Eltinay

Following an extended build-up, April 6, 2019 marked an acute change in the lives of many Sudanese individuals. A resilient uprising that profoundly shook the ambitions, sentiments, and prospects of the people.

 

A crude, collective act of resistance and revolution leads to a sit-in protest in Khartoum. As an active participant, I see it as a concentrated manifestation of a fragile, wounded nation. A diverse country experiencing a moment of flux; simultaneously in a state of breakthrough and skepticism.

 

Marching and chanting in anguish, I experience feelings I cannot necessarily describe or explain. Fear and doubt fade in and out. Yet, how can I (not) resist? Every time two processions fuse, I get the sensation that the revolution is boundless, and I see that we are the resistance.

 

Immersed yet mere, this series is a premeditative testimony of the Sudanese uprising. An invested gaze into the collective kernel of a revolutionary act, that happened to change my life.

 

All images shot in Khartoum, Sudan between the months of April and June 2019.

An image from the photography project 'We are the resistance' by Saad Eltinay, featured in blume magazine Issue 001
An image from the photography project 'We are the resistance' by Saad Eltinay, featured in blume magazine Issue 001
An image from the photography project 'We are the resistance' by Saad Eltinay, featured in blume magazine Issue 001
An image from the photography project 'We are the resistance' by Saad Eltinay, featured in blume magazine Issue 001
An image from the photography project 'We are the resistance' by Saad Eltinay, featured in blume magazine Issue 001
An image from the photography project 'We are the resistance' by Saad Eltinay, featured in blume magazine Issue 001
An image from the photography project 'We are the resistance' by Saad Eltinay, featured in blume magazine Issue 001
An image from the photography project 'We are the resistance' by Saad Eltinay, featured in blume magazine Issue 001
An image from the photography project 'We are the resistance' by Saad Eltinay, featured in blume magazine Issue 001
An image from the photography project 'We are the resistance' by Saad Eltinay, featured in blume magazine Issue 001
An image from the photography project 'We are the resistance' by Saad Eltinay, featured in blume magazine Issue 001
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