“Paris Glacial”
FINEART PHOTOGRAPHY FOR SALE (prices via email)
120x120cm – edition of 5
50x50cm – edition of 10
30x30cm – edition of 15
Winter of 2017 in Paris/France Black and White, medium format, film
PARIS GLACIAL
It was a harsh long winter. Being Brazilian this is not the kind of reality I’m used to. The days were freezing cold and the snow fell for 3 days in Paris, covering the city in white.
I wanted to see beyond the chaos announced on the news, I always saw beauty in snow, but I wanted to see more then beauty, I wanted to discover what it felt like to be around so much snow in the busy centre of Paris. I grabbed my Hasselblad and BW film and stopped at my favourite place, the Jardins des Tuileries, where it’s normally packed with tourists, to my surprise it was practically empty. A part of the Jardins was actually closed for safety.
I started walking towards the Louvre and saw a few people here and there, they were in a completely different mood, “walking with care”, in a reduce pace, a totally unnatural rhythm for Parisian to wonder around the city. The slow motion brought a sense of peacefulness, that added to the thick white layer of snow made everything even calmer. There was an unusual silence in the air. I could hear myself breathing, the snow melting and the dogs barking in the background. It was the opposite of chaos. I walked for hours, I normally never enjoy to be out in the cold, but for the first time I was feeling something so grand and powerful. A lonely sentimental journey I had never experience before.
FINEART PHOTOGRAPHY FOR SALE (prices via email)
120x120cm – edition of 5
50x50cm – edition of 10
30x30cm – edition of 15
Winter of 2017 in Paris/France Black and White, medium format, film
PARIS GLACIAL
It was a harsh long winter. Being Brazilian this is not the kind of reality I’m used to. The days were freezing cold and the snow fell for 3 days in Paris, covering the city in white.
I wanted to see beyond the chaos announced on the news, I always saw beauty in snow, but I wanted to see more then beauty, I wanted to discover what it felt like to be around so much snow in the busy centre of Paris. I grabbed my Hasselblad and BW film and stopped at my favourite place, the Jardins des Tuileries, where it’s normally packed with tourists, to my surprise it was practically empty. A part of the Jardins was actually closed for safety.
I started walking towards the Louvre and saw a few people here and there, they were in a completely different mood, “walking with care”, in a reduce pace, a totally unnatural rhythm for Parisian to wonder around the city. The slow motion brought a sense of peacefulness, that added to the thick white layer of snow made everything even calmer. There was an unusual silence in the air. I could hear myself breathing, the snow melting and the dogs barking in the background. It was the opposite of chaos. I walked for hours, I normally never enjoy to be out in the cold, but for the first time I was feeling something so grand and powerful. A lonely sentimental journey I had never experience before.
FINEART PHOTOGRAPHY FOR SALE (prices via email)
120x120cm – edition of 5
50x50cm – edition of 10
30x30cm – edition of 15
Winter of 2017 in Paris/France Black and White, medium format, film
PARIS GLACIAL
It was a harsh long winter. Being Brazilian this is not the kind of reality I’m used to. The days were freezing cold and the snow fell for 3 days in Paris, covering the city in white.
I wanted to see beyond the chaos announced on the news, I always saw beauty in snow, but I wanted to see more then beauty, I wanted to discover what it felt like to be around so much snow in the busy centre of Paris. I grabbed my Hasselblad and BW film and stopped at my favourite place, the Jardins des Tuileries, where it’s normally packed with tourists, to my surprise it was practically empty. A part of the Jardins was actually closed for safety.
I started walking towards the Louvre and saw a few people here and there, they were in a completely different mood, “walking with care”, in a reduce pace, a totally unnatural rhythm for Parisian to wonder around the city. The slow motion brought a sense of peacefulness, that added to the thick white layer of snow made everything even calmer. There was an unusual silence in the air. I could hear myself breathing, the snow melting and the dogs barking in the background. It was the opposite of chaos. I walked for hours, I normally never enjoy to be out in the cold, but for the first time I was feeling something so grand and powerful. A lonely sentimental journey I had never experience before.
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