The Paris Series brings together photographs from multiple visits between 2001 and 2017, captured using a range of cameras and techniques—from 35mm color slides and black-and-white film to medium-format negatives, and in later trips, the Fuji X100. This technical diversity mirrors the city itself: layered, evolving, and endlessly suggestive. Paris emerges here as the “City of Light,” but also, in the words of Taha Hussein, a “city of ghosts and angels,” suspended between memory and immediacy. The photographs attempt to capture its seductive atmosphere—at once intellectual and sensual—echoing literary associations such as Henry Miller’s Paris and his charged encounters with Anaïs Nin, where the city becomes a backdrop for forbidden love, artistic experimentation, and emotional intensity.

The series unfolds through multiple urban fragments: institutional landmarks such as the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, UNESCO’s meditation space and garden, and the Institut du Monde Arabe; cultural interventions including the Fondation Cartier and Centre Pompidou; and iconic monuments such as the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame. These are interwoven with everyday urban scenes from the Marais, Les Berges de la Seine, Boulevard Raspail Market, Passages Couverts, and the Promenade Plantée, alongside quieter observations in neighborhoods such as La Chapelle. Together, these images portray Paris as both monumental and intimate—an urban landscape where architecture, literature, memory, and lived experience converge into a city that remains perpetually alluring, reflective, and deeply human.