Professor Kaiserstraat 44

Living with eleven roommates, I photographed them in their rooms to explore intimacy, privacy, and shared living. Some chose not to participate. The photographed rooms and the closed doors together reflect the boundaries between.

I currently live with eleven roommates. We share a kitchen and bathroom, but we do not always know how each other lives behind the doors of our own rooms.

This project began as an attempt to document the personal spaces of the people I live with. I photographed my roommates one by one in their own rooms. More than just living spaces, these rooms are deeply private environments where habits, tastes, and memories accumulate over time.

Not everyone wanted to take part in the project. Some roommates declined to be photographed. Their absence became more than a simple omission; it became an essential part of the project itself. For some people, a room is something they are happy to share. For others, it is a private space they want to keep for themselves.

The people in the photographs and the people who remain unseen show different levels of closeness and distance. This project is about living together, but it is also about the limits of how much we can know about one another.

Ultimately, this project is a record of multiple worlds coexisting within a single house. The rooms that were photographed, and the doors that never opened, are all part of this moment.