12 by 12 - Challenge #2

 

Find a place where you live where history made its mark. Allow yourself to breathe, feel, contemplate and react with a photograph

– Laura El-Tantawy

 

On 25 April 1974 there was a revolution in Portugal establishing democracy and freedom. Almost no shots were fired, and flowers, mostly carnations, were offered by civilians to military, who put them into the muzzles of their rifles. All over the country, 25 April day is celebrated ever since. In Lisbon, my town, people traditionally walk down a wide street named Liberdade Avenue. There, one can see young people going, side by side, with people who were young by the time of the revolution. There are no boring speeches (lovely!), but lots of flags and banners, a large part of them homemade. And carnations! People hold them, put them on their clothes and on their hair.

These photos are just faces. Faces from random people to whom I asked for a photo, and accepted it. They are open faces from freedom and democracy. We need them. With their carnations.