Clok @ Paris

#24hourproject: Starting tomorrow (Friday 18th) evening at midnight to end on Saturday at midnight. I played it on the four previous years (and it’s exhilarating), not this time: it’s your turn!

Are you ready for the world’s largest street photography event, guys? When: 19th March 2016 Where: in your city, from Wellington to Paris, from San Francisco to Mumbay Please visit www.24hourproject.org to register for the 24 Hour worldwide project (@24HourProject on Instagram).

This year, they’re coming together to help rescue and rehabilitate human trafficking survivors by supporting the social work of She Has Hope (@she_has_hope on Instagram).

Je suis toujours Charlie — heir to the black humour, “mean and nasty”, of Hara-Kiri.

One year ago, Cabu, Wolinski, Honoré, Charb & Tignous were murdered (and other people I didn’t know) — it’s still hard to believe. Probably because I was a Charlie’s reader & grew up with these journalists cartoonists.

For Franck.

The list seems to be finished now — some names are still missing though and numerous (351) wounded persons are not named here.

Stéphane Albertini (40 years old) Nick Alexander (36 years old) Jean-Jacques Amiot (68 years old) Anne-Laure Arruebo (36 years old) Thomas Ayad (32 years old) Guillaume Barreau-Decherf (43 years old) Chloé Boissinot (25 years old) Emmanuel Bonnet (48 years old) Maxime Bouffard (26 years old) Quentin Boulenger (29 years old) Ludovic Boumbas (40 years old) Elodie Breuil (23 years old) Ciprian Calciu (32 years old) Claire Camax (35 years old) Nicolas Catinat (37 years old) Baptiste Chevreau (24 years old) Nicolas Classeau (40 years old) Manuel Colaco Dias (63 years old) Anne Cornet-Guyomard (29 years old) Precilia Correia (35 years old) Cécile Coudon Peccadeau de l'Isle (37 years old) Marie-Aimée Dalloz (34 years old) Aurélie de Peretti (33 years old) Matthieu de Rorthais (32 years old) Nicolas Degenhardt (37 years old) Elsa Delplace (35 years old) Alban Denuit (32 years old) Vincent Detoc (38 years old) Asta Diakite (no specified age) Romain Didier (32 years old) Lucie Dietrich (37 years old) Elif Dogan (26 years old) Fabrice Dubois (46 years old) Romain Dunet (25 years old) Thomas Duperron (30 years old) Mathias Dymarski (22 years old) Salah Emad El Gebaly (28 years old) Germain Ferey (36 years old) Romain Feuillade (31 years old) Grégory Fosse (28 years old) Christophe Foultier (39 years old) Julien Galisson (32 years old) Suzon Garrigues (21 years old) Mayeul Gaubert (30 years old) Véronique Geoffroy de Bourgies (54 years old) Cédric Ginestou (27 years old) Matthieu Giroud (39 years old) Cédric Gomet (30 years old) Nohemi Gonzalez (23 years old) Juan-Alberto González Garrido (29 years old) Pierre-Yves Guyomard (43 years old) Stéphane Hache (52 years old) Thierry Hardouin (41 years old) Marie Hardouin (no specified age) Olivier Hauducœur (44 years old) Frédéric Henninot (45 years old) Pierre-Antoine Henry (29 years old) Raphaël Hilz (28 years old) Mathieu Hoche (38 years old) Djamila Houd (41 years old) Mohamed Amine Ibnolmobarak (29 years old) Pierre Innocenti (40 years old) Michelli Gil Jaimez (27 years old) Nathalie Jardin (31 years old) Marion Jouanneau (24 years old) Milko Jozic (47 years old) Jean-Jacques Kirchheim (44 years old) Hyacinthe Koma (37 years old) Nathalie Lauraine (40 years old) Marie Lausch (23 years old) Guillaume Le Dramp (33 years old) Renaud Le Guen (29 years old) Gilles Leclerc (32 years old) Christophe Lellouche (33 years old) Anna Lieffrig-Pétard (24 years old) Marion Lieffrig-Pétard (30 years old) Claire Maitrot-Tapprest (23 years old) Cécile Martin (33 years old) Antoine Mary (34 years old) Cédric Mauduit (41 years old) Charlotte Meaud (30 years old) Emilie Meaud (30 years old) Isabelle Merlin (45 years old) Fanny Minot (29 years old) Yannick Minvielle (39 years old) Cécile Misse (32 years old) Lamia Mondeguer (30 years old) Marie Mosser (24 years old) Justine Moulin (23 years old) Quentin Mourier (29 years old) Victor Muñoz (25 years old) Christophe Mutez (40 years old) Hélène Muyal-Leiris (35 years old) Romain Naufle (31 years old) Bertrand Navarret (37 years old) Christopher Neuet-Shalter (39 years old) Lola Ouzounian (17 years old) David Perchirin (45 years old) Manu Perez (40 years old) Franck Pitiot (33 years old) Lacramioara Pop (29 years old) Caroline Prenat (24 years old) François-Xavier Prévost (29 years old) Sébastien Proisy (38 years old) Armelle Pumir-Anticevic (46 years old) Richard Rammant (53 years old) Valentin Ribet (26 years old) Estelle Rouat (25 years old) Tibault Rousse-Lacordaire (37 years old) Raphaël Ruiz (37 years old) Halima Saadi (35 years old) Hoda Saadi (34 years old) Madeleine Sadin (30 years old) Kheireddine Sahbi (29 years old) Lola Salines (28 years old) Patricia San Martin (61 years old) Hugo Sarrade (23 years old) Maud Serrault (37 years old) Sven Alejandro Silva (29 years old) Valeria Solesin (28 years old) Fabian Stech (51 years old) Ariane Theiller (24 years old) Eric Thomé (39 years old) Olivier Vernadal (44 years old) Stella Verry (36 years old) Luis-Felipe Zschoche Valle (33 years old) And a Parisian man unknown, of 30 years old, and a Swedish woman unknown, of 25 years old — their loved ones didn’t want to tell their name.

Their skin was black, white, and all the colors in-between.

They were algerians, americans, armenians, belgians, britishs, burkinabes, chileans, frenchs, germans, italians, malians, mexicans, portugueses, romanians, serbians, spaniards, swedish, tunisians, turks, venezuelans.

They were atheists, catholics, jews, muslims, orthodox, protestants… Observants or not.

They could have been me, you, your sister & brother, your child, your father & mother.

“We’ll always have Paris.” Rick Blaine in Casablanca (Howard Koch).

“Love is all.”

Paris, passage Saint-Sébastien (near the Bataclan, a concert hall, where at least 89 people were murdered by Daesh and hundreds injured), November 15th, 2015.

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” Franz Kafka

Joie de vivre.

«She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn’t give yourself.» Émile Zola.

«[…] Vous êtes amoureux. Loué jusqu’au mois d’août. Vous êtes amoureux. — Vos sonnets La font rire. Tous vos amis s’en vont, vous êtes mauvais goût. — Puis l’adorée, un soir, a daigné vous écrire!…

— Ce soir-là… — vous rentrez aux cafés éclatants, Vous demandez des bocks ou de la limonade… — On n’est pas sérieux, quand on a dix-sept ans Et qu’on a des tilleuls verts sur la promenade.» Rimbaud.

(“You’re in love. Praised until the month of August. You’re in love — Your sonnets make Her laugh. All your friends disappear, you are not quite the thing. — Then your adored one, one evening, condescends to write to you…!

That evening… — you go back again to the dazzling cafes, You ask for beer or for lemonade… — You are not really serious when you are seventeen And there are green lime trees on the promenade.”)

Mon compagnon est mort.

On July 31, 2015, during the night, my closest friend died. 

He was a companion of life, a friend, a partner, a brother, a dad for my daughter, a colleague. Sometimes a lover, sometimes a bodyguard, sometimes a home nurse, and so many things more. 

Tormented soul, he was a painter, and a gifted journalist artistic director for a living.

“We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.” Paul Auster. (2/2, the previous one)

Paris, le Marais, April 18, 2015.

“We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.” Paul Auster. (1/2 — the second one here)

Paris, le Marais, April 18, 2015.

Du lundi 11 mai au vendredi 15, de 12h à 20h (sauf jeudi 14, fermé), une exposition sur l’histoire socioculturelle de Belleville se tiendra à l’École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-Belleville (60, boulevard de la Villette, métro... Belleville). Quelques clichés issus de mes yeux. Mais bien d’autres yeux et des courts métrages (Banksy, Invader). Vernissage le lundi à partir de 19h. 

Plus d’infos sur la page Facebook de Street Ar(t)chives. Et aussi sur la page de l’événement.

“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.” Leonardo da Vinci

Ziggie or Ninja (her name depends on the moment), a new member of our family, Paris, Belleville, May 4, 2015.

“No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at the wrong time, the wrong place at the right time, always just missing each other, always just a few inches from figuring the whole thing out. That’s what the story boils down to, I think. A series of lost chances. All the pieces were there from the beginning, but no one knew how to put them together.” Paul Auster.

Paris, quartier Arts & Métiers, April 18, 2015.

“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” Ernest Hemingway

Paris, le Marais, April 18, 2015.

«L’embellie». (This word means something between “the breakthrough” and “the new dawn”.)

Paris, Clok’s serie (tentative d’épuisement, depletion attempt of Belleville), April 18, 2015 (right now). Pour Christian.