Paris | 2011
Refined café elegance
Paris | 2012
If you're hiding from the rain
You're missing half the fun
Paris | 2015
In a less glamorous quartier, two brothers huddled in a darkened doorway - one looking up to the other for protection, the other looking out to the world for hope.
Paris | 2016
As the weekend concludes Lundi looms large, ready to tear new love asunder...but there's time for a final embrace before a cursed train breaks the spell.
Paris | 2016
If you’re lucky enough to make it to Paris, be sure to wrap a loved one’s arms around you and seize the city, full speed ahead.
Paris | 2016
Wellies and a slicker repelled the elements on a rainy Montmartre day, but were no defense against a face-full of chantilly incurred by boyish exuberance and observed with patronizing sisterly amusement.
Paris | 2015
A small man in a huge doorway, smoking cigarettes while impeccably dressed and coiffed....Paris
Paris | 2016
Mirror, mirror on the street
One never knows who they might meet
Paris | 2013
Paris is stunning at age 2,200,
We are all young in her eyes.
Paris | 2017
With the evening sun at her back but a climb still ahead, our determined matriarchtrudges up Ménilmontant burdened with bulk baked goods - too intent in her task to be bothered by the subtle distinction between street and sidewalk.
Paris | 2015
Belle Epoch traditions live on...
Paris | 2015
Sunshine paints
the world
in light.
It's your love
that gives it
color.
Paris | 2017
The linear tranquility of a two-dimensional stroll past a geometric backdrop is vividly disrupted by the energy of a curious child.
Paris | 2011
I've passed this gallerie book shop often but rarely seen the proprietor engaged with anything but his wares, with which he has much in common (being old, dusty, implacable and intriguing). This shot was snapped in passing yet captured the mood and his standard repose: disheveled, disinterested and isolated whilst reading in the back, leaving his friends to sell themselves to any who might wander past.
Paris | 2011
Paris is so full of art that one needn't visit the countless galleries or museums for a beautiful dose of culture -- just head out to the street and it will find you,
Paris | 2016
Marty McFly can travel through time but can't keep himself from aging...his friend passionately dissects the world's ills after spending three hours trying to look like she threw an outfit together. He's 35 going on 14, she's 25 going on 80 -- no worries; in this town you're free to choose your look, age and demeanor.
They're ridiculous, they're interesting, they're conformists in their non-conformity....they're Paris.
Paris | 2017
It’s often hard to score a seat on a cozy Parisian terrace -- it’s unheard of to discover only one table occupied...but contentedly sporting yoga pants, pink shoes and a heavy attitude it seems our Rebel Without A Coif is quite comfortable sitting apart from the crowd.
Paris | 2016
I came around a corner and found these two parting ways -- fond adieus portrayed them as friends, but crackling electricity suggested much more in their future. Perhaps it was the end of a conversation but the start of a whole new dynamic.
Paris | 2016
The pointed tone of this street professor caught my attention as he dropped unsolicited wisdom on his captive audience, but it's the reaction of his pupils (one a cynically detached expression, the other looking askance towards my lens) that truly expressed the comity and comedy of the moment.
Paris | 2016
Years of wear-and-tear are evidenced in a distressed, ink-stained, tattered look that's still quite chic and holding itself together.
A description of the woman or her jeans?
Possibly both.
Paris | 2017
With cool Parigot aplomb, our ladies disregard the canted tabletop and angled wine horizons, calmly conducting a conversation like seasoned sailors in a storm.
Paris | 2017
International cities are melting pots that force contrasting customs into sharp relief; side-by-side we find disparate worlds coexisting, even when not quite co-mingling.
Paris | 2015
A worldly French visage etched with confidence and framed by a black turtleneck sits back-to-back against a ruddy trench-wearing Brit in a public square....are they spies surreptitiously sharing international secrets, or husbands waiting for wives to finish shopping? As a romantic I envision every scene in Paris as layered with adventure and mystery, so I'll go with the more intriguing option...
Paris | 2015
Passionately talking out of both sides of her mouth in the shadow of Sainte-Trinité.
Paris | 2014
The café-cluttered Rue de Buci quickly fills with patrons as dusk settles across Saint Germain des Pres in the heart of Paris’ Left Bank. The influx makes it (even more) difficult to grab a waiter’s attention, but so long as you’ve scored a table and a view of the scene, what’s the rush?
Paris | 2015
She bares one shoulder, letting birds fly free like so many uncorked bubbles into the Marais night.
They are her spirit, they are her totem, they are the sacred secret stained beneath her skin.
For now she bears his scrutiny with a mask to meet his gaze, while across her back the message reads that she shall not be caged.
Paris | 2015
We reflexively imagine Paris cafés as sexy scenes where beautiful people congregate to seal deals of various varieties, but in the late afternoon between lunch crowds and happy hours, when school has let-out and moms need a break (with some coffee or wine), these same spots can serve as community hubs where homework is tackled by diligent students...and less committed scholars race toy cars along the ground.
Paris | 2014
On a side street in Paris' 10eme, an interesting scene of contrasts is crafted when a bonne soeur in traditional garb takes an unorthodox spin on a Vel'ib. The long robe is a curious outfit for bike riding and her colorful garment is uncommonly vibrant against the aged architecture, but the wondrous gaze at the marvels of Paris (dare we call it beatific?) is quite a common sight.
Paris | 2014
Paris' crazy traffic, tiny streets and lack of parking make motorized merchandise distribution nearly impossible; a predicament that's given rise to an enterprising subculture of handcarts-for-hire. Sherpas congregate on corners waiting for a job, then hurriedly escort their loads down sidewalks like rickshaws for cargo...but most don't do so with as much aplomb or character as this gent.
Paris | 2015
On this warm autumn day a rough couple of characters shed their shoes and shared a bottle beside Paris' Bassin de la Villette. Though the banks of the nearby Canal Saint Martin are rapidly gentrifying, the waterway still winds its way through some of the less desirable areas of the capital...this 19eme backdrop, with those gents, the dated architecture and a couple of rusting tubs all combined to create a rough, industrial 1960s feel accentuated in black-and-white.
Paris | 2015
Suddenly chic SoPi is slowly gentrifying under the care of a crop of creatives unbothered by the distressed conditions. Here an artist encumbered by the tools of his trade strolls by the papered-over façade of the Hotel des Artistes, summing up the ‘hood with a glance.
Paris | 2013
Glamorous people-watching, bubbling water, upscale fashion, first-rate nonchalance, the cafe setting, the quintessential French newspaper...it's a portal straight from your screen to the shadow of the Eiffel Tower.
Paris | 2015
Not all shopping in Paris is haute couture...but low-brow outlets have a style all their own.
Paris | 2015
Modern technology has altered the dynamic of cafe conversations: discourse continue, but participants don't always share the same table...or neighborhood. Oddly enough, even when sitting alone the need to express is often just as emphatic.
Paris | 2014
Place de la République is fertile ground for delightful juxtapositions, like this scene transpiring across vastly different steps of the social pyramid; ragged gents taking interest in the vibrant younger generation....which in turn has eyes only for itself.
Paris | 2014
On a crowded market street during a busy Paris afternoon, a tough man is made to look gentle by the stroller he pushes through the throngs while a gentle child looks tough with the (not so) funny face he makes at the camera.
Paris | 2015
On the edge of Paris' Marais district lies the beautiful Place des Vosges -- one of the oldest, smallest and most romantic plazas in the city.
Paris | 2012
Mom leads her petit écolier down the street with defiant eccentricity, but her son is not amused. Classmates had only just stopped teasing him about mere's frocks, her shoes and her goofy disposition...then she showed up with purple hair!
Some day he'll be glad for her open mind, fanciful nature and rebellious tendencies; this is not that day.
Paris | 2015
The girls casually dangle their legs over a sign forbidding access while the boys strike a defiant pose that lends character to the scene and scale to the massive Aérosol mural that playfully pleads for behavior behind them.
Paris | 2015
Her mind is elsewhere as she treads the streets of her adopted home, the chill of an unfamiliar clime compelling an outfit as mixed as the quartier's cultures.
Paris | 2014
Taking advantage of the rare peace afforded by a child’s nap, this Parisian mother meditated on nature -- and the city just beyond -- from her foliage-filled vantage point in Parc des Buttes Chaumont.
Paris | 2015
The Metro can bring every walk of life to any part of town but rarely brings us together, highlighting mankind's contradictions: the ability to pool our talents in conquering monumental tasks... and then back to the lonelinsess within ourselves once we do.
Paris | 2014
Forget about him, darling
we’ll get you a new one.
Paris | 2014
A proud woman in a striking outfit marches through the detritus of a heavily-trafficked Goutte d'Or street at day’s end. The boulevard marks a border between worlds and bears earmarks of each, while she comfortably spans them -- her dazzling colors brightening the conservative architecture, her dignity defying the downtrodden elements.
Paris | 2017
A powdered figure in a peculiar pose pauses on a pricey Marais street -- is she an animated mannequin fleeing her boutique, or a time-traveling courtier anachronistically armed with shopping bags and a smartphone?
Paris | 2014
Tabacs in Paris are a most curious institution, ranging from simple cigarette-selling storefronts to foreboding gambling dens of inequity to well-worn hangouts where locals gather over drinks to share the latest gossip.
Most are dingy no-frills establishments (the better to dissuade tourists), but this peculiar pastel address is nearly as colorful the characters who frequent it.
Paris | 2016
Amongst the teeming throngs shopping on Place Madeleine, a solo shady character poses in the shadows of an ornate doorway.
With fingers on his phone, eyes on the crowd, and a pucker for the world, he cuts a cryptic figure....is he a gigolo, a con man, a James Dean impersonator -- all of the above, or none?
Paris | 2017
Much of Paris’ abundant majesty is quite conspicuously displayed, but far from all of it.
This is the back of the Richelieu Library. The gleaming front is welcoming, the renovated interior is spectacular, but it is the chipped, soot-covered service entry on a narrow rue to the rear that most deeply earns my admiration. There’s no pretense or glamour-- just imposing, enduring, functionality and beauty that is likely overlooked by delivery men on their rounds and old men seeking purchase for a snack, but not by us.
Paris | 2017
Pausing on the way to grandmother’s house, our red-hooded heroine takes a seat and has a snack, oblivious to lurking danger. She’s far from the forest but not out of the woods, with a loup louche eyeing more than her basket.
