Paroisse Saint Jean Baptiste, Paris — Autumn Street Scene

4 October 2017 · Paris

Paroisse Saint Jean Baptiste sits at the centre of its boulevard square, the neoclassical facade framed on either side by trees just beginning to turn. The clock pediment and limestone front hold their ground against a busy Parisian streetscape — apartment blocks pressing in from both flanks, a cast-iron street lamp pulling the foreground into geometry. The church is the still point; the city is everything else moving around it.