The public square in front of Paris\u2019s city hall was undergoing construction work when M\u00e9lissa David took this photograph as she passed by en route to an appointment. She had taken her camera along in the hope of taking some pictures, but when she realised she had forgotten to charge the batteries, she used her phone instead.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seemed like an ordinary sunny day in Paris, the city full of busy people,\u201d the French photographer recalls. \u201cThere were these big panels with images printed on them installed in front of the city hall to shield some of the building work. The light was beautiful, and I\u00a0wanted to capture the strong shadows of these strangers passing by around the girl with the balloons.\u201d<\/p>\n
The image was spontaneous and the variety of postures authentic. David later edited the image using Photoshop Express, something she doesn\u2019t mind admitting. \u201cEditing is completely a\u00a0part of the creative process,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Along the way, she converted the colour image to black and white: \u201cMonochrome feels to me like a way of trying to find poetry in everyday life.\u201d<\/p>\n
David notes that when she takes pictures, she \u201cdoesn\u2019t think about the viewers\u201d first. \u201cI believe my photos reveal a lot about myself,\u201d she says. \u201cLike a connection between how I feel inside and what I see outside.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople see things or interpret my photos in ways I don\u2019t expect. It reveals their own feelings and visions, and I love it when this happens. Then the image doesn\u2019t belong only to me any more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The public square in front of Paris\u2019s city hall was undergoing construction work when M\u00e9lissa David took this…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":241499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-241498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115236789901702696","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}