This series began with encounters in Amsterdam with people living on the edges of society. Individuals who I first mistook as homeless but who were in fact residents of social housing, vulnerable and surviving in precarious circumstances. Many were not born here: some came from Africa, others from the Caribbean, carrying with them stories of movement and dislocation. My own presence in Amsterdam is different: I arrived with my Dutch partner, not as a migrant but not quite at home either. I can return regularly to my studio in London, while many of the people I met will never “go back.” Through conversation, photography, and reconstruction, I was invited into their lives. These fragmented portraits reflect the complexity of belonging in a city that often renders such lives invisible. They ask viewers to confront their assumptions about vulnerability and to recognise how fragile the line is between security and precarity between staying, leaving, and belonging.