© Yildiz Durmus
© Yildiz Durmus
© Yildiz Durmus
© Yildiz Durmus
© Yildiz Durmus
© Yildiz Durmus

These portraits were taken slowly, one conversation at a time. Nobody was asked to pose or to smile — each frame is a short pause in an ordinary day, kept the way it was found. Faces change, work changes, the streets change, but the habit of showing up for one another stays. All photographs in this collection were made by the author and are published here for the first time.

Some stories are better told in pictures. This is one of them — a series of moments collected slowly, without a plan, until they started to belong together.