Buttes-Chaumont
For me, "Mystery and Melancholy of a Street" perfectly captures the unexpected horror of the pandemic: an innocent child, running headlong towards an unknown figure, standing just out of frame. They are photos of places that can bring both nostalgia and/or unease depending on the location photographed that are mostly devoid of things and thus have removed context. These spaces are often places tied to a lot of emotion. When robbed of the things and people that make these places what they are, they take on this unreal dream aspect that inspires different emotions. For me, I feel sorrow seeing the passage and transition of things from their glory days to the slow fade into memory until forgotten, abandoned, and alone