There are lands where history weighs on every face, every stone, every gesture of daily life. Places where past and present coexist in a silent tension, almost palpable. It is in this fragile space that I photograph. Not to explain, nor to judge, but to bear witness. The lens as the only language. Silence as the only narrative. An empire in transformation leaves traces behind. These are the traces I seek: in an averted gaze, in the shadow of a wall, in the solitude of a man amid the movement of the world.