Juliette à Paris

Each image documents a location in Paris featured in the films of French actor Juliette Binoche. The subtitles are the lines spoken by Binoche in that particular scene. With the images arranged randomly (the full series has 60 images), these subtitles create a new, absurd narrative that seems to revolve around a discussion in a troubled relationship. The featured sites span roughly 30 years of Binoche’s career, a time paralleling my time of moving to and living in NYC. Working on this project was both a Proustian exercise, a way to delve into lost time and to reflect on changes within the medium of photography since. Using an 8 x 10 pinhole camera was a way to take the medium back to its basics and allude to the early images of Paris in the 19th century.