The Saint-Jacques district in Paris has been a constant source of inspiration to me. One day, as I was looking for new subjects, while I was browsing my notes I took a look across the back of our building. There was so much on my plate just by looking at that area that I decided not to look any further for a while.
Saint-Jacques in Paris, 3 different views
As I did this, I then I realised that there was so much happening around us that I might even probably uncover a few dozen subjects in themselves just looking at the buildings around me, the people behind windows, some dressed, some not, having a cup of coffee in the kitchen or watching TV or even just having a stroll between four walls and possibly talking to themselves in the privacy of their apartments. For those wondering where St Jacques in Paris is, here’s a map courtesy of Google.
That’s how I started working on the St Jacques series, a collection of drawings and watercolours showing the buildings around the area, and catching glimpses of the lives that are unfolding before our very eyes at various moments of the day.
My number 1 watercolour of Saint Jacques was dedicated to mornings, a minute description of what was going on at day-break with people having breakfast, walking around in their bathrobes or even working from home as I do so often myself.
Number 2 is about the same area at night, only from a different angle and with a different size. It’s a picture in which only a few brightly lit windows are emerging from a huge dark mass of concrete and stone walls. One cannot perceive the textures of these wall anymore at that time of night.
Number 3 is a triptych version of an evening in Saint Jacques, not yet so dark as the night one but quite dark though. As it happens, I finalised evening number 2 even before I started working on evening number 1.
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Je suis photographe et aquarelliste. Je pratique la photographie depuis l'enfance et la photographie numérique depuis 1995. J'en ai fait mon activité principale en 2021. Je possède un studio photo dans le 15e arrondissement de Paris
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