Cave Canem, which means "Caution, Dogs may come out." Is this warning because dogs can hurt us or because we should not step on the tail of a dog that is lazily dozing under the car?

Esra Özgüroğlu photographs a dark and fragile world in Balat. The mysterious tensions of everyday life find a place in the book along with tender and peaceful moments.

Cramped buildings, laundry flapping in the wind, graffiti as if foreshadowing something, moldy sofas, naps in the park, cryptic expressions on faces, children's games whose rules we cannot even guess... Cave Canem invites the reader to get lost in this shadowy and shrouded world.