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This post is a remembrance post… It was in october 2008 that I was walking through the Place du Panthéon, in Paris, and that I discovered the incredibly powerful sculptures of an Italian artist: Rabarama (Italian language).

I happened to be there by chance with my camera and tried to shoot something. But there were so many people walking-by around 18:00 that I decided to come back with my tripod at night.

I left home at 3:30 am and arrived at the Panthéon thirty minutes later.

There were only very few people walking-by that night (mostly young students, sometimes drunk, in fact) and I could shoot until 7:30.

The photographs are in the Gallery.

Last day I was walking in the Quartier Latin, specifically the Mouffetard place, in central Paris. This is a place I often frequent and I was sad to discover that a number of beautiful graffiti had been erased.

Most of the graffiti were the work of these artists: artists who collectively sign their work with “Lézarts de la Bièvre” along with a lizard drawing and another who signs his work with “JEFF AEROSOL“. Both names are fun. Of course, to understand what is funny in the first signature one needs to know that, from a phonetical standpoint, “Lézarts” might mean both “The arts” and “The lizards”. The Bièvre is a small river flowing underground near in the Quartier Latin.

I have photographed a number of such graffiti in the past years and my best shots are in this gallery. The graffiti that are now gone forever were the following: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and finally 7 (certainly one of my preferred, for its apt reference to a renowned film director). I’m happy that what they had been is stored in my Street-Art Gallery.

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