Ian Michael Flores
Porte Saint-Martin, crossing

Light and Stone

Paris
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Gothic glass and Haussmann stone, and the people who pass through both. The chapel and the opera house are built to make you look up; the Porte Saint-Martin and the Louvre courtyard put someone in the frame to give the stone its scale. It ends underground, where the city keeps its dead.

Skateboarders in the Cour Napoléon
Skateboarders in the Cour Napoléon
Sainte-Chapelle, the upper chapel
Sainte-Chapelle, the upper chapel
The reliquary canopy, Sainte-Chapelle
The reliquary canopy, Sainte-Chapelle
The grand staircase, Palais Garnier
The grand staircase, Palais Garnier
Fontaine des Mers, Place de la Concorde
Fontaine des Mers, Place de la Concorde
The Seine at dusk, past the Conciergerie
The Seine at dusk, past the Conciergerie
The catacombs
The catacombs
Next Shepherds Among the Columns