Centre Pompidou Plaza from Above — Paris Aerial View

5 October 2017 · Paris

Place Georges-Pompidou seen from the Beaubourg's upper structure, the diagonal pipes cutting across the frame and layering the view. Below, a queue snakes across the wide-open piazza while a large painted roundel — 'ART? Avez-vous quelque chose à déclarer?' — holds the centre of the plaza like a target. The Haussmann roofline fills the background under a flat spring sky. What makes the shot is the tension between the industrial foreground and the orderly city beyond it — two readings of Paris pressed into one frame.