After the fall of a 30-year-long dictatorship in 2019, Sudan entered a period of uncertainty—a mixture of fragile hope and lingering fear filled the air. No one realized that this was the calm before the storm, a brief respite before the upheaval of

After the fall of a 30-year-long dictatorship in 2019, Sudan entered a period of uncertainty—a mixture of fragile hope and lingering fear filled the air. No one realized that this was the calm before the storm, a brief respite before the upheaval of 2023 that would shatter all confidence at once. It was during this fleeting moment of stillness that the photographs for THE WANING SEASON were taken in the capital, Khartoum.

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After the fall of a 30-year-long dictatorship in 2019, Sudan entered a period of uncertainty—a mixture of fragile hope and lingering fear filled the air. No one realized that this was the calm before the storm, a brief respite before the upheaval of 2023 that would shatter all confidence at once. It was during this fleeting moment of stillness that the photographs for THE WANING SEASON were taken in the capital, Khartoum.

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