The Eiffel Tower Series brings together medium-format black-and-white photographs and later images taken with the Fuji X100, capturing Paris’s most recognizable icon from a more reflective distance. Despite its centrality to the city’s identity, I never walked up the tower or took the elevator—the lines always too long, the experience reduced to a familiar tourist cliché. Instead, I observed it from the surrounding spaces and from across the city, where its silhouette emerges above the rooftops as a constant reference point, an enduring marker of Paris’s skyline and one of the great feats of nineteenth-century engineering.

During my first visit, what struck me most was a modest glass pavilion set before the large green expanse facing the tower, where the word “peace” was inscribed in multiple world languages. This understated gesture contrasted with the monumentality of the structure behind it, introducing a quieter, human dimension to the site. The photographs reflect this duality: the Eiffel Tower as both global symbol and distant presence—an object of admiration best appreciated not through ascent, but through observation, where its lattice form continues to assert itself across the city with remarkable elegance and clarity.