© 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.

This photo story started the way most good ones do: by accident. One frame led to another, and before long there was a whole album asking to be shared.