Adnan Hasović
03 — Streets, rooftops, rooms

Black and White

Amsterdam, Shanghai · Black and white

Wet streets hold light the way nothing else in a city does. Most of these were made walking home, mostly in rain, mostly without stopping — black and white because at night colour is only the streetlights talking. The portraits come from the other end of the day, made on rooftops with no studio and no lights: the sky behind, the city underneath, and whatever the wind was doing to the hair.

Paper umbrellas glowing over a wet street at night, light reflected in the road.
A bare tree and parked cars on a rain-soaked street, neon reflected in the tarmac.
A crowded night market under umbrellas, high contrast, figures dissolving into black.
A low bridge over black water at night, its piers doubled in the reflection.
Two people sheltering under an umbrella, the city smeared by camera movement.
A figure standing alone in a dark lane, raising a camera.
A woman with slicked-back hair and hoop earrings in a checked shirt, city roofs behind her.
Amsterdam, 2024
A woman with dark hair blown loose across a bright sky, looking straight into the lens.
Amsterdam, 2024
A woman in a heavy wool sweater, both hands resting on top of her head.
Amsterdam, 2025
A woman in a white top and open leather jacket on a rooftop, Amsterdam spread out behind.
Amsterdam, 2025
A silhouetted figure smoking at a window beside a second frame of the room behind.
Two exposures, one frame
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Rooms

Ongoing · Saturated colour · One figure, one room