52 Photographs (2018) #14: Proust on the left, Orwell on the right

52 Photographs (2018) #14: Proust on the left, Orwell on the right

What interests me in photography is the strange and unexpected. I like to photograph those weird coincidences and moments which one can see sometimes in a large city like Paris. Yes, I do take pictures of buildings and landscapes, but really only to train myself how to compose and frame a picture. In week 14, the week after spotting a young sailor walking towards the sea, I saw this:

Proust on the left, Orwell on the right

Of course there are a few photographic echoes in there. Kertez spent his life taking photographs of people reading. I am happy that today in Paris one can still see such things.

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