We Came Here for the View is a collaborative project shot on one camera between photographers Tom Lyon and Pauline Vanden Neste. Set within the Aurore neighbourhood in Brussels, Belgium, their project explores former industrial zones as centres of immigration and transformation. The neighbourhood, developed in the sixties, is a succession of seven towers which have stood through several waves of the area’s immigration. Yet, like many industrial zones, the Aurore neighbourhood’s inevitable future lies in the hands of privatization and gentrification. In the mean time, however, life goes on, and it this passing of life which Lyon and Neste seek to capture; the banalities, solitudes and particular lives of Aurore residents such as Vivianne, Sami or Daniel. Continue below for the full series!

- Alexa Fahlman