Queue at Place Georges-Pompidou, Paris

5 October 2017 · Paris

From above, the queue outside Centre Pompidou becomes something else — a single line drawn across the plaza's geometric paving, people reduced to a pattern the square seems to have planned for. The Haussmann facades hold their position around the perimeter, and the ventilation shafts of the Pompidou stand at either side like punctuation. Paris organises itself in ways that only make sense from a height.