LETTERS FROM ELSEWHERE
Photography from places worth remembering
The work starts on foot. Walking the same arrondissement at different hours. The same bridge in different weather. Until the city decides to show me something I hadn't seen.
A photograph happens in a single moment. The photograph itself takes months.
I shoot to a thesis, not a checklist. Paris already has its postcards. I'm after the hour after the postcard. When the tour groups have left, the light has softened, and the city forgets it's being looked at. Each of these nine letters was made in that hour.
These are the moments after the decisive moment, when Paris stops performing and goes back to being itself.
Studio Halcyon
Look at what was seen. Then give yourself the time to see it again.
The collection stays open until the next chapter, somewhere else, made in someone else's hour. Until then, Paris.
Where each shot was taken
Tap a pin to read its letter.
The Letters · 1–99
01
324 MetresTour Eiffel · 7ᵉBuilt for the 1889 World Fair. Scheduled to come down at twenty years. Still up at one hundred and thirty-six.Tap again to view →
LE
02
PanamePont Alexandre III · 7ᵉ/8ᵉOld Parisian slang for the city itself, at the bridge where Paris looks most like Paris.Tap again to view →
LE
03
After the AshesÎle de la Cité · 4ᵉNotre-Dame reopened. The painting came back. The couple came back. Paris does not rush.Tap again to view →
LE
04
Sur le PontÎle Saint-Louis · 4ᵉWhere Paris splits and meets again. The old things kept quietly, without explanation.Tap again to view →
05
Tu as vu?Tuileries · 1ᵉʳBetween the Louvre and the Concorde. The French do not visit paintings. They attend them.Tap again to view →
06
After Afterworks10ᵉ · near RépubliqueA Thursday terrasse at seven. The walk home turning a boulevard into a painting.Tap again to view →
07
When the Clock Hits 10Latin Quarter · 5ᵉThe cave à vins with no website, the chalk menu, the tables too close together on purpose.Tap again to view →
08
Une P'tite Pause?10ᵉ · east of RépubliqueThe café where the old man reads Le Monde in a hat nobody makes anymore.Tap again to view →
09
À VéloJardin des Plantes · 5ᵉThe bicycle Prévert wrote about and Doisneau photographed. Still leaning against the same wall.Tap again to view →
324 MetresTour Eiffel · 7ᵉBuilt for the 1889 World Fair. Scheduled to come down at twenty years. Still up at one hundred and thirty-six.Tap again to view →
LE
02
PanamePont Alexandre III · 7ᵉ/8ᵉOld Parisian slang for the city itself, at the bridge where Paris looks most like Paris.Tap again to view →
LE
03
After the AshesÎle de la Cité · 4ᵉNotre-Dame reopened. The painting came back. The couple came back. Paris does not rush.Tap again to view →
LE
04
Sur le PontÎle Saint-Louis · 4ᵉWhere Paris splits and meets again. The old things kept quietly, without explanation.Tap again to view →
05
Tu as vu?Tuileries · 1ᵉʳBetween the Louvre and the Concorde. The French do not visit paintings. They attend them.Tap again to view →
06
After Afterworks10ᵉ · near RépubliqueA Thursday terrasse at seven. The walk home turning a boulevard into a painting.Tap again to view →
07
When the Clock Hits 10Latin Quarter · 5ᵉThe cave à vins with no website, the chalk menu, the tables too close together on purpose.Tap again to view →
08
Une P'tite Pause?10ᵉ · east of RépubliqueThe café where the old man reads Le Monde in a hat nobody makes anymore.Tap again to view →
09
À VéloJardin des Plantes · 5ᵉThe bicycle Prévert wrote about and Doisneau photographed. Still leaning against the same wall.Tap again to view →
