The magazine of the photo-essay
May/June 2022 issue
“A free, really high quality photo-essay magazine. Fabulous!”
Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film maker
by Thomas Boivin
Since 2010, Thomas Bovin has been making beautiful, contemplative black and white
photographs of his Parisian neighborhood and the people who live there.
Belleville is a place that is both emblematic of the popular notions of Paris and
constantly changing. Set in the eastern part of Paris, it is a multicultural area of the
city that attracts artists and those new to France.
“I started to photograph its streets and people as soon as I moved there, and kept
photographing for years. Photographing people, above all, was what I found meaningful.
Although the photographs hardly depict the city, I find they convey the sensation that I had,
walking the streets of Belleville: A mixture of beauty and decay, of joyful moments and
sadness, the warm feeling of light and the bitter sweet sensation that one can experience
walking around all day, searching for a stranger’s eyes.”
- Thomas Boivin
STANLEY/BARKER
