With the approach of the next presidential elections planned for October 2020, Ivory Coast and its inhabitants plunge into a spiral of doubt and fear. Nine years after the fall of the former president Laurent Gbagbo in April 2011.
Today, the big heads of the political parties are playing a dangerous game that could turn the country into another battle field.
This photograph was taken in november 2011, the first time I went out to the beach after staying locked up for months in our family house. I remember feeling tense, being far away from the house. What if something happens again, will I be stuck here? I was 16. I then saw this woman, climbing a fisherman's boat and just staring at the sea for a long a time.
I remember capturing this moment of complet calm and serenity, telling myself that we're alright now.
Today, with the upcoming election, I look back at this photograph.
