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An invisible wheel turning in the shadow of tall buildings, in front of iron shutters, at the edge of market stalls… This selection is a record of those who carry life on their backs, of handwork, and of the street's raw, real cycle that no shutter can quite contain — in defiance of the cold ledgers of corporate finance and the glass walls of the office towers.

What is here is not money or capital, but the unshakeable weight of a gas cylinder, a stall, a load hoisted onto a shoulder, and that small world rebuilt every single day. An honest, unfiltered portrait of those who do not vanish between the great structures but write the street's rhythm with their own hands.

This selection is my way of recording the street's own memory.

At those intersections where the new mixes with the old, concrete with people: a plain, direct gaze that gives itself over to the street's real flow.

When the colours withdraw and the noise falls away, all that remains is pure form and stillness.

I strip the person of their face, the place of its detail. Because the truth lies in the stance of a silhouette lost among concrete, iron and empty space — in that split second of geometry left hanging in the air.

Rather than telling stories, this selection points to the silent, monochrome emptiness that begins where the light ends. The purest state of shadows that flee, stand, wait, and yet resist time.

That thin line between the mirror and the surface, between hiding and being seen… This selection carries the quiet reckoning a person holds with their own limits, their belongings and their wish to disappear.

In a foreign land or on the street where they live; sometimes taking shelter behind a curtain, sometimes as a cry for help left hanging in the air, sometimes standing utterly alone in the middle of a crowd — each of these is a stop where someone defines themselves anew. An album of those tense, lucid moments in which identity sheds its skin and the search stops being geographical and turns entirely inward.

Don't turn around This will be the end Sit it down and count to ten It's chemicals It burns me out

This selection is the story of how we can never quite know how much of a life, how many unspoken words and what kind of silence lie behind every line on a face, every fold of a hand.

For exactly that reason, let us linger on the face where words end and the unknowable begins.