Thresholds

Since 2020, I photographed everyday spaces in Zanzibar, working across the Unguja and Pemba islands. The work focuses on yards, shops, and doorways beyond tourism, where visibility is uneven. Clothing marks presence and belonging.

Thresholds documents everyday life in spaces shaped by transition. The work focuses on streets, courtyards, shops, and domestic exteriors where private and public worlds meet, and where people pass, pause, or wait.

Rather than following a single story, the project observes how these environments are used and inhabited: children standing in doorways, workers resting, neighbors gathering, light spilling from interiors at night. Attention is given to how architecture, routine, and social roles influence movement and behavior.

The photographs consider thresholds as lived spaces—places that structure daily experience and quietly reflect broader social and economic conditions, without spectacle or dramatization.