Urban Parks - Paris (1)

Paris, Les Jardins du Luxembourg

©2009 Daniel Marchand

©2009 Daniel Marchand

Parks in Capitals

When we accepted the suggestion of friends to travel to London in November to take in some theatre, I thought of adding a photographic assignment to the journey. We planned a one-week stay in London for which we rented a flat on New Globe Way with this view of St-Paul's Cathedral.

We decided to spend an extra week in Europe and visit Berlin for the first time and end up in Paris for Paris Photo.

For my "photographic assignment" I thought that I should concentrate on landscape and take only a film camera, the new Bessa III 667 by Voigtlander. Actually, I also packed the Holga for the fun of it, and the iPhone for the inevitable snapshots. My goal was to get photos of some urban parks in each of the cities visited and to juxtapose them with photos taken, also in November, in Ottawa. A visual comparison of sort of urban parks in four capitals cities, in the same month of November.

I will be posting some of the photos here over the next few days and weeks and hope to have a complete series ready for my website early in the new year.

mus-mus @Paris : Results announced

The team at mus-mus has just announced the results of @Paris, their second on-line collaborative show. 122 invited and selected photographers are part of this show.

The members of the jury for this year's competition were Denise Wolff who recently left Phaidon to become Book Editor at the Aperture Foundation, well known photographer and promoter of color photography Stephen Shore, and photographer Gil Blank.

I am happy to say that the photo I submitted is included in the final selection.

I am doubly happy to find myself in the company of photographers whose work I admire such as Magnum photographer Alec Soth, Beth Dow , Brian Ulrich, Shane Lavalette , Stephen Shore and Corinne Vionnet.

Thanks to the mus-mus Team and congratulations to the selected photographers.

Paris - Walk in the park!

I spent some time updating my Flikr account over the past few days and have included some photos taken in Paris in November 2007.

While in Paris for Paris Photo, we took a walking tour of Belleville, one of the working-class neighborhoods of Paris. The walk ended at the Parc des Buttes Chaumont where this photo was taken. I find it particularly idyllic.

©2007 Daniel Marchand