Les princes de la ville (2020)

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Series made during the first confinement in Paris. (March 2020)
We were all locked in our spaces and the only ones who remained on the streets were the homeless because of their lack of housing.

During the pandemic many things were reversed and one of them was the strong visibility of the homeless ( «SDF » in French) . Ironically, these people are always made invisible by society, but during the confinement they were the most notorious persons. It was as if they were the owners of the streets. They were the only ones with the right to be outside.
I dedicated myself to walking the streets of Paris in its various arrondissements and portraiture them.

The protocol consisted of giving them a t-shirt that they chose from my «Save Humanity» brand (a brand of t-shirts that I founded in 2020 with a social purpose) in exchange for a photographic portrait.