How do you get to know a city? Friends, guidebooks and influencers can point you to the agreed list of must-sees, but a city is so much more than its tourist landmarks.
In 2010, Jon Davey spent fifteen days in Paris as a student photographer. He’d gone there without a plan so each day began with a clean slate, stepping out onto the streets of the Marais and then just wandering around, taking in whatever came his way. A flâneur long before he even knew the word.
Back home, he imagined that a book of photos would be a fine project to quickly remember the trip. But Paris had other ideas. For more than a decade personal memories, historical echoes and cultural coincidences kept refreshing his connection to the city that Hemingway had coined the ‘moveable feast’, so he redrew the project to include other dimensions – including the redrawing itself.
From busking footballers to blindfolded wine-tasters, from May Day muguets to a missing painting, Fifteen Days in Paris charts the evolution of an artistic ambition. It’s a book about writing, about photography, about success disguised as failure and, above all, about following your own star. With more than seventy original photos, it’s also a love letter to Paris.
In 2010, Jon Davey spent fifteen days in Paris as a student photographer. He’d gone there without a plan so each day began with a clean slate, stepping out onto the streets of the Marais and then just wandering around, taking in whatever came his way. A flâneur long before he even knew the word.
Back home, he imagined that a book of photos would be a fine project to quickly remember the trip. But Paris had other ideas. For more than a decade personal memories, historical echoes and cultural coincidences kept refreshing his connection to the city that Hemingway had coined the ‘moveable feast’, so he redrew the project to include other dimensions – including the redrawing itself.
From busking footballers to blindfolded wine-tasters, from May Day muguets to a missing painting, Fifteen Days in Paris charts the evolution of an artistic ambition. It’s a book about writing, about photography, about success disguised as failure and, above all, about following your own star. With more than seventy original photos, it’s also a love letter to Paris.