A woman in a brown jacket and jeans holds a camera to her eye beside a repeating mesh and steel facade. A shallow reflecting pool runs along the left; concrete walkway between. Overcast daylight, Paris.

Photographer at a Mesh Facade, Paris

5 October 2017 · Paris

A narrow walkway runs between a reflecting pool and a wall of industrial mesh panels at a modern Paris building. The woman raising a camera to shoot the facade turns the frame self-referential — the act of looking becomes as visible as the thing being looked at. Overcast light flattens shadow and brings the repeating steel geometry forward, panel after panel receding toward the left edge.

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