The City Center, Passages Couverts & Promenade Plantée Series brings together photographs taken with medium-format film and the Fuji X100, capturing everyday streets and layered urban experiences across central Paris. The images move through the city’s dense fabric—boulevards, sidewalks, cafés, and storefronts—where daily life unfolds with a quiet rhythm. Interspersed within these scenes are the Passages Couverts, nineteenth-century covered arcades that evoke a past age of glass-roofed promenades and intimate retail spaces. Despite their historic origins, they remain active and thriving, their narrow corridors animated by shops, cafés, and pedestrians, preserving a sense of continuity between Paris’s past and present.

The series concludes with the Promenade Plantée, an elevated linear park often considered a precursor to New York’s High Line. Unlike its more theatrical counterpart, this intervention feels quieter and more dignified, integrating greenery, pathways, and views into the surrounding neighborhoods with understated elegance. The photographs capture its calm atmosphere and its role as a contemplative urban retreat, demonstrating how Paris has long experimented with adaptive reuse and human-scaled public space. Together, these images portray a city where historic passages and thoughtful contemporary interventions coexist within the everyday life of the streets.