Never forget Nevers

This is a topographic series of ten spots or spaces within the limited scope of a small provincial town in France: Nevers. The series gathers courtyards, backyards, crossroads, streets, parking lots, walls, transformers, lamp posts, billboards, in other words modest, commonplace elements from urban surroundings that tend to become invisible from neglect or indifference, though they too partake of the peculiar character and beauty of a town. These pictures invite us to take a fresh look at our urban environment, first of all the place where we live. Nevers is my home town: I was born and grew up there, and I am still living there. What I have always been drawn to in my wanderings across this town is not the tourist sites but extraordinarily common places and details from the everyday. By roaming around Nevers, I keep documenting its common beauty, its familiar singularity, hoping that Nevers will remain in our mind’s eye rather than in guidebooks, and never be forgotten.