West End, Brisbane is changing. For generations, it has been home to working families, migrant kitchens, expressive artists and the occasional activists. Today new towers are rising, rents increase, and familiar shopfronts go dark one at a time. It is not clear who belongs here tomorrow.

The beating heart of West End is Boundary Street - a strip of shopfronts that carried the neighbourhood's little comedies, drama and life. Spend enough time walking here and the street begins to speak. It speaks of locals and migrants who brought it to life. Of its uncertain future. Of former residents that left and drifted back, often to heal - as if spiritually bounded.

These photographs represent my conversations with Boundary Street.