Bra Bar in Paris © 2015 Chant Wagner Color Story Series In English, I'm tempted to call this picture "Bra Bar" while in French I come up with L'air de rien, because of the contrast between the family scene...
Paris Photo Archives
The Plant Woman & The Sea Monster {Paris Street Photo}
La femme plante bouge (RTL Bouge) - The Plant Woman Moves © 2015 Chant Wagner Even though you're supposed to capture the flow of life when you do street photography, you have to admit that your eye for certain...
Happy Halloween from Paris {Paris Photo}
Paris, le 31 octobre au soir - Halloween © 2015 Chant Wagner A sign that Halloween is not dead in Paris was this long queue leading, I thought at first to a movie theater perhaps and next, to a...
Recapturing Madame Bovary {Paris Photo}
Madame Bovary Recaptured I © 2015 Chant Wagner As a new filmic version of Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary is about to be released, you can spy certain parallelisms and juxtapositions in the streets of Paris, which seem to ascertain...
Halloween Action - A Tale of Two Cities Series {Paris & Cambridge, MA Photos}
Halloween Anticipation, Paris © 2015 Chant Wagner A Tale of Two Cities Series Last summer, when I was taking street-photographies of Istanbul I happened on unique scenes to the city but at the same time also encountered very similar...
Le magasin des modes et des élégances la nuit - The Strange Life of Objects Series {Paris Photo}
Le magasin des modes et des élégances la nuit © 2015 Chant Wagner The Strange Life of Objects Series One of my favorite, recurring topics for photographing on the streets is capturing what I like to call "The Strange...
Green, Black & Red - Flowers in the Dark {Paris Photo}
Color Story Series I love seeing color emerge timidly from a pool of black - it has something to do perhaps with the symbolism of the lotus which rises above the mud: it's surprising and unexpected......
Hookah Smokers - Smell & Shoot Series {Paris Photo}
Hookah Smokers, Paris © 2015 Chant Wagner Smell and Shoot Series In Paris there is a place which is my personal triangle of the Bermudes olfactorily speaking because very often as I walk by, I smell a vanishing smell...
Shoes of Gold at Hôpital Necker - Enfants Malades {Paris Photo}
Shoes of Gold - Hôpital Necker - Enfants Malades © 2015 Chant Wagner Color Story Series I'll be honest, in this case smell was not a trigger, rather it was color. Hôpital Necker - Enfants Malades is, as its...
End of Sunday Mass at Notre Dame de Paris {Paris Photo}
Smell & Shoot Series This is a series of photos on the end of Sunday Mass at Notre Dame de Paris tonight as the religious officiants were exiting the church nave......
A Corner in the Paris Sky {Paris Photo}
Coin du ciel de Paris © 2015 Chant Wagner Here's a little corner of the sky in Paris yesterday evening, or rather at dusk......
Picture from an Exhibition II: Lanvin - The Gradiva or Fashion in Action {Paris Photo} {Fashion Notes}
The Gradiva - After the Jeanne Lanvin Exhibition © Chant Wagner One of the interesting, more peripheral aspects of visiting the exhibition on Jeanne Lanvin at Palais Galliera was to see that some of the attendees were wearing fashion...
Parisiennes - Grace {Paris Photo}
Parisiennes - Grace © 2015 Chant Wagner Soaking up a late summer sunshine in-between downpours - three Parisian friends are having a chat at a café terrace, a common sight which is here slightly different for the sense of...
Picture from an Exhibition: Lanvin {Paris Photo} {Fashion Notes}
Picture from an Exhibition: Lanvin © 2015 Chant Wagner (You can click on picture for a larger view) Yesterday, the exhibition on Jeanne Lanvin at Palais Galliera ended. It turned out to be an opportunity to study some rare...
Street Smells & Sights & a Sense of Place - Istanbul Instagram Recap - Part I {Perfume Images} {Peregrine Paris Photo}
© Chant Wagner A Recap and a Selection of Street Smells & Sights and the Sense of Place they elicit, from Istanbul, Turkey. Part I, with an Introduction If online discursive perfume culture started out in most cases with...