La vie de Paris

La vie de Paris is a romantic, photographic documentation of the people and street scenes of Paris. Mornings are relaxed, daytimes exciting, and by night - the mood shifts as the day light sleeps. It is like a second dawn at dusk.

“ Photographing Paris was exhilerating as there is so much stimuli - cuturally, artistically, visually - it was neverending. The challenge was to create something interesting, engaging and original. The photographic approach was simple. Put my bushwalking boots on and just get out there with my camera, walk endless km’s and be instinctive “.

Photographed in 2011, La vie de Paris is David’s the first of his European series. It paints a story of a city where the people form it’s pulse. It is an impassioned collection of images portraying Parisiens in their local, home environment- in the centre of one the world’s truely great cities. Story telling and and a sense of the mystique are central to the exhibition - with compelling night scenes and after midnight intrigue.

“ Paris seduced me immediately. I photographed for six days and nights in the Autumn of 2011. I barely slept. How could I? So much to explore , love, engage, see, create, emote and express. I could photograph for 100 days and still feel unfinished but being conatined to 6 days gave me an urgency in my work which I feel was needed and congruent.

The result is a visually rich, passionate depiction of life in Paris. The photos were captured in Les Halles, Notra Dame, Place de Vosges, Le Marais (4th Arrondissement ), Pigalle and Montmartre (18th Arrondissemont) and a brief dalliance into Versaille, 12 miles out of the centre of Paris.

c 2012