Thomas Boivin’s Belleville (2022) is a look at a traditionally working-class neighbourhood in north-eastern Paris, for example, while Loic Seguin’s Half-Light (2020) is a hard-hitting series of portraits from the same district. Clarisse Hahn’s Les Princes de la Rue [The Princes of the Street] was shot in working-class, multicultural Barbes-Rochechouart and exhibited at the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival in 2021; Myr Muratet’s Paris Nord (2021) includes images of impoverished individuals living around the Gare du Nord train station and beyond the Périphérique, the ring road around central Paris.
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Paris is going through a period of rapid change and expansion. We talk to the photographers who are documenting this shift, who aim to show a vision of the city that reaches beyond its romanticised image

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Top: From Périphérique by Mohamed Bourouissa, published by Loose Joints; © Mohamed Bourouisssa; Above: From Belleville by Thomas Boivin, published by Stanley Barker; © Thomas Boivin
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From Belleville by Thomas Boivin, published by Stanley Barker; © Thomas Boivin
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From Half-Light by Loic Seguin, published by Void; © Loic Seguin