I came to Rwanda for the first time in 1971, as an economist. I came to work in the tea plantations, and the tea plantations had a very balanced way of life. When I came back to the tea plantations recently, all was burned, all was destroyed. All the effort that all these people made was lost. Up to that moment, until I took those pictures, I was sure that evolution was positive.
Evolution can be towards anything, it can be in any direction.
We can evolve negatively, going to the death, going to the final point, going to the most brutal end. All the migrants I photographed once lived in a stable way. Now they suffer change, and what they have with them is just a small slice of hope. And it is with this hope that they are trying to get another stable position in life. When I went to Kosovo, I was reminded exactly of this.