Bonds – Berlin Edition unfolds as an ongoing chapter within a larger exploration of human connection – of closeness, power, and the subtle negotiations that shape intimacy. It is still in motion: a living process, a series of encounters that trace the fragile and deliberate ways people meet, perform, and reveal themselves. Berlin becomes a stage for self-presentation, for play, for the testing of boundaries. Here, intimacy is not something accidental – it is created, constructed, performed. Those who appear in front of the camera do so with awareness: they shape presence, they challenge visibility, they share authorship. The camera does not observe from a distance; it responds, it participates. Each encounter becomes a dialogue – between control and surrender, between what is shown and what remains hidden. These early images are not conclusions, but openings – fragments of a growing study into how bonds are formed and re-formed within the intensity of urban life. Bonds – Berlin Edition remains in flux: a process of seeing and being seen, of playing and negotiating, of searching for the performative essence of connection in the city.