At 10 a.m. on 20 January 2009, on 142nd Street in Harlem, New York, at minus one degree Celsius under a clear sky, Katsumi Omori stood among the crowd gathered in an open space to watch the public screening of Barack Obama's historic inauguration as 44th president of the United States. His pictures make visible the invisible: desire, feeling and emotion, the warmth of bodies and the voices of human beings. It is the first book of a trilogy with Incarnation and Bonjour!, and it ends with a line from the inaugural speech about remembering who we are and how far we have traveled.