To be here, but barely. Elsewhere follows the body through city shadows—unnoticed, unstilled, unreal.
Elsewhere is a series about dislocation—bodies present in spaces they do not belong to, or no longer remember. Set in terraces, alleyways, backyards, and in-between zones of the modern city, these photographs imagine the nude not in nature, nor in interior, but in a third space: public yet abandoned, familiar yet estranged.
Burak Bulut Yildirim has photographed nude bodies in cities across Europe for nearly two decades, capturing moments where the skin meets concrete, laundry lines, subway walls, and the soft edges of forgotten architecture. These are not protests nor performances—they are quiet appearances. The body is not asserting itself, but simply existing where it is not expected to. Like ghosts from a theatre long closed, these figures inhabit a kind of urban unreality. There is an echo of Francesca Woodman’s “House” series, or the playful tension in Sophie Calle’s spatial games. Each figure is both present and misplaced, transforming a balcony into a stage, or a fire escape into a shrine.
Elsewhere also speaks to psychological geography. What does it mean to inhabit a space as if one is not meant to be there? These images exist in the gap between private gesture and public exposure. The city becomes a silent collaborator—an indifferent witness. Through these limited edition prints, collectors are invited into a narrative of displacement, poetic intervention, and the delicate friction between body and built environment. Elsewhere is not just a place—it is a condition.
https://burakbulut.org/elsewhere/
