I haven’t posted on here in a while, so first a quick life update. I moved to France! Since the start of 2023, both Alicia and I have been living in France. We spent last year in the small town of Fontainebleau while I was completing my master’s degree and relocated to Paris in January after I graduated.

To say that Paris is a photographer’s dream would be an understatement. It’s remarkably dense, packed with interesting people, and surrounded by beautiful architecture and history. After several years of lackluster motivation to create pictures Paris feels like a shock of inspiration. Whenever you step onto the street you never know exactly what you may find, but you can be damn sure you will see something worth photographing. Living less than a mile from the spot where Henri Cartier-Bresson made his famous decisive moment photo nearly 100 years ago will do that to you.

All this newfound inspiration has led to a lot of photos, many of which have been hiding on my external hard drives out of the light of day.

To be honest, I’m fed up with sharing pictures on Instagram. I think I posted a total of 3 times in the last year, and more out of desperation than anything else. Because where else do you share photos now? As a result, I feel that Insta has become a classic example of the cart leading the horse. What’s the trend? What’s the cool editing style? Even the format of the photos (vertical not horizontal) is affected when Instagram is the only outlet for photography.

So, this post is a combination of two things. A way to share some photographs I captured on a 5-mile walk through Montmartre on a sunny day last weekend. And a different, hopefully better way to view those images.

If you’ve made it this far, thanks for reading. I hope you enjoy the photos!