At 48.8 degrees north, Paris unfolds along an invisible line that crosses the city from east to west. More than a geographic coordinate, this latitude becomes a way of navigating the urban landscape—an imaginary axis along which the life of the city reveals itself in fragments.
Near its symbolic center, where the Seine curves around the Île de la Cité and Place Dauphine, lies the Paris we think we know: elegant, composed, endlessly photographed. Yet beyond this familiar image extends another city—less polished, more immediate—where the rhythms of everyday life shape the streets in quieter ways.
Latitude 48.8 is a photographic exploration of that living city. Moving through streets, stations, and neighborhoods, the images follow fleeting alignments of people, light, color, and architecture. A gesture caught in passing sunlight, a reflection on wet asphalt, a shadow cutting across the pavement at midday—each photograph records a brief moment in the continuous flow of urban life.
Rather than monumental landmarks, the work focuses on ordinary presences: weathered facades, passing figures, fragments of color and movement. Together, these elements form a subtle cartography of the city—one defined not by monuments but by encounters.
The latitude referenced in the title is both real and metaphorical: a line that crosses Paris, but also a way of looking. Along this invisible axis, the familiar dissolves into the unexpected, and the everyday reveals its quiet intensity.
What emerges is not the Paris of spectacle, but the Paris of moments—ephemeral, imperfect, and endlessly alive.
