Time works for us is a documentary-based photographic series developed through observing bulky waste collection events across multiple districts of the city of Budapest. These temporary situations create a unique public display of private belongings, revealing patterns of value, loss, and shifting significance within a consumer-driven environment.

Objects placed on the street simultaneously represent rejection and potential reuse. While certain items have lost all value for their former owners, others remain desirable or functional to someone else. This momentary overlap exposes the instability of material worth and the differing systems through which value is assigned.

Waste is inherently intimate. It is not hidden, yet it is rarely meant to be seen. During these collection days, however, the city unintentionally stages short-lived exhibitions composed of discarded objects open to everyone, without mediation or hierarchy. The photographs document these one-day installations, focusing on how personal histories, habits, and social structures become readable through what is left behind.

Rather than moralizing consumption, Time works for us approaches disposal as a visual and social process, where time functions as an active agent in transforming meaning, ownership, and visibility.