Cahul

The market is finished by noon.

Forstate is at the market while the crates are still shut. When the stalls pack up, the stills are already with the stall. The packing shed south of town is a separate night.

Name the shift

The shift, in order

Crates before opening
Market Crates before opening
Seller, empty scale
Portrait Seller, empty scale
Bus park, morning
Place Bus park, morning
Tomato line
Night Tomato line
Driver at the wheel
Portrait Driver at the wheel
Street after the stalls
Market Street after the stalls
Empty crates in shade
Object Empty crates in shade
Tomatoes in the crate
Food Tomatoes in the crate
Window toward the park
Desk Window toward the park
Edge of town, dust
Place Edge of town, dust

The desk sits on Strada Stefan cel Mare, across from the bus park. The people who call are growers, stall holders, and the depot. A brief that wants a styled kitchen goes somewhere else.

By ten in summer the dust is on every face. We shoot before it, or we leave it. Cleaning a Cahul morning until it looks imported is the mistake we stopped making.

Three shifts

The night the line ran short

2025, Packing

The night the line ran short

A shed south of Cahul wanted the shift, not a hero tomato.

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The stall after the flowers left

2026, Market

The stall after the flowers left

A seller asked for the empty table, which is when she counts.

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Four drivers for the depot wall

2024, Depot

Four drivers for the depot wall

The park wanted portraits in the buses, on a weekday, between runs.

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The morning

Before the tarp comes off

Stills in the aisle while the crates are still shut.

A night on the line

The packing shed, booked as night, kept as long as the shift.

Leave the south on it

The morning stays pale. The shed stays green from the tubes. We do not unify them.

Sorted by stall

A folder the cooperative can hand to a person, not a contact sheet.

We do not build a shed

If the building is not there, we do not invent it.

A name, moving

Titles for a depot screen or a stall's phone, in the words they already use.

Forstate

Write which shift, which place, and whether the people in frame should be named.

Call the desk