Portraits for No One is a cycle of interwoven stories and eighty black-and-white portraits. Together they form the collective memory of Hometown, a town that never existed but feels achingly familiar.
In these stories, a woman steps through invisible cracks in the air; a singer’s voice makes umbrellas bloom; a clockmaker’s shattered hourglass halts time; a photographer never raises his camera, yet Hometown remembers his portraits.
The photographs do not illustrate the tales — they accompany them like relics from a fictional archive. Faces and objects emerge as though from a forgotten studio, unsettlingly real, yet belonging to no one.
Part short story collection, part portrait album, part imaginary ethnography, Portraits for No One explores how communities are preserved: in images, in stories, or only in the imagination.