The Doorstep approaches the entrances of apartment flats in Turkey as thresholds positioned between public and private space. Photographed across different districts of Istanbul, apartment doors are documented frontally through a fixed frame.
These spaces, located between the inside and outside of the home, are shaped by ornaments, shoe cabinets, plants, doormats, and various everyday objects. Rather than functioning merely as points of passage, doorsteps become surfaces of expression where identity, belief, daily practice, and aesthetic choices extend into the semi-public realm.
The project aims to make visible how these thresholds are woven through personal memory, social belonging, and cultural habits. The doorstep becomes a signal field and a system of signs: at times an invitation, at times a boundary, and at times a form of resistance.
The photographs produced within the project are positioned according to the districts where they were taken and presented through a digital map installation. Visual data is classified through sociological filters based on objects such as ornaments, cabinets, shoes, and doormats. In this way, the photographs move beyond aesthetic documentation and become sociocultural indicators through which class differences, belief systems, and everyday urban practices can be read.