Ali is a Turkish/German octogenarian who caught the eye of photographer Zoe Spawton back in 2012 when he kept walking past her workplace every day. He moved to Germany from Turkey more than forty years ago. He was once a doctor, but now he’s a tailor, although that should come as no surprise when you see his flair for fashion.

Spawton decided to start photographing him on a regular basis, and that’s what she did for the next three years until 2015.