Julian Assange, journalist, publisher, founder of WikiLeaks makes a statement from the balcony of Ecuadorean Embassy where he has been given asylum, to hundreds of people massed on the street below, and a strong police presence. When his speech is complete he looks wistfully up into the sky above, perhaps for the first time in months, since June when by necessity he has been confined to being totally indoors, living under the protection of the Ecuadorean Embassy. Knightsbridge, London, UK, 19th August 2012
“It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit” Noël Coward
Date: 19/08/2012
Location: Knightsbridge, London, UK
Photographer: Richard Keith Wolff