Déambulations Géometriques

Algorithmic walk in the city.

2011

In this highly-prescriptive photo walk, I took up the impossible challenge of capturing an exhaustive portrait of an ordinary day in the city. 

I walked around Paris over 12 hours, taking pictures at a 1-hour interval, at specific locations all equally-distant from a central location in the city, letting these simple rules decide what would be picture-worthy.

What ended up falling in front of the camera’s lens at these moments and locations was exposing mostly the architecture and the infrastructure of the city: the streets, facades, trees and monuments that constitute the background of everyday life. 

But the process quickly revealed to me that no portrait of a city could be complete without showing what actually makes a city possible: people. What started as a very strict journey also became a source of surprising moments and encounters I captured in-between each hourly rendez-vous and decided to include the final selection.