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- In the afternoon a small crowd converged on Tahrir and was met with repeated volleys of tear gas from the police. But they stayed.
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- At shortly after midnight the police used a thick layer of tear gas and rubber coated bullets on the crowd of hard core protesters. It cleared out the square for the night.
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- Some of the protesters were taken to a nearby pharmacy where the pharmacists were sewing up head wounds and handing out medicine.
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- At shortly after midnight the police used a thick layer of tear gas and rubber coated bullets on the crowd of hard core protesters. It cleared out the square for the night.
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- Even among the injured there was a light atmosphere.
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- The next day the Egyptian stock market closed with significant losses.
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- Protesters and photographers outside the Egyptian Press Syndicate. The riot police treated it like any other protest.
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- Spectators gathered on nearby streets and started to chant. Plain-clothesd police picked a few people out of the crowds and drug them to a waiting van.
I started photographing a small protest on January 25th that grew into something larger than I ever imagined. This is a quick edit of images showing a different side of the protest than you may have seen.
My photos have been published in the WSJ, The Guardian’s Magazine, and a few longer narratives with BAGnews 1st, 2nd, 3rd.