Het Verzet #2

A young woman on a bicycle navigates an occupied city street, her expression tense and guarded as German soldiers relax at a brasserie terrace behind her — a Nazi flag hanging brazenly overhead. A newspaper kiosk crowded with wartime publications stands nearby, watched over by a shadowy figure in a hat and coat, lending the scene an air of surveillance and unease. Het Verzet #2, "De kwade wind," captures the suffocating atmosphere of life under occupation with striking period detail, brought to vivid life through Scarlett Smulkowski's rich, restrained coloring.