Ivar Hagendoorn

Paris

Paris

I visit Paris about once a year. I always try to combine visiting an exhibition, attending a performance and shopping. Over the years I've come to know the city quite well, but there are still plenty of areas that I'd like to explore or revisit.

Paris — Yes, this is in Paris, in Saint-Ouen to be precise

Paris — Along the Seine

Paris, Les Puces de Saint-Ouen — Mannequins in Les Puces de Saint-Ouen

Mannequins in Les Puces de Saint-Ouen

Dirty realism in Paris

Dirty realism in Paris

You know what at a market in Paris 16

The Paris Metro

The Paris Metro

Eiffel Tower, Paris — After years of visiting Paris I finally climbed the Eiffel Tower and guess what, it was awesome

Left: Sacré Coeur; Right: Notre Dame (the view from the towers is amazing)

Left: Sacré Coeur; Right: Notre Dame (the view from the towers is amazing)

Paris Catacombes — The Catacombes de Paris are an underground ossuary. The entrance is opposite the Denfert-Rochereau metro station (metro 4 and 6 and RER B). The tour is about 1.7 km long.

I should visit the catacombs again sometime now that I have a better lens and camera

I should visit the catacombs again sometime now that I have a better lens and camera

The Cimetière du Père-Lachaise on a drowsy winter day in January. It is so large, it's almost a village, with streets and alleys.

The Cimetière du Père-Lachaise on a drowsy winter day in January. It is so large, it's almost a village, with streets and alleys.

Those girls again, because they're so hot/cool (choose one)

Since the vendors at Les Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen sell and display just random stuff you get these fascinating juxtapositions that would be hard to come up with deliberately. Recall the famous surrealist maxim "beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella", a line from Les Chants de Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont.

Since the vendors at Les Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen sell and display just random stuff you get these fascinating juxtapositions that would be hard to come up with deliberately. Recall the famous surrealist maxim "beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella", a line from Les Chants de Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont.

Fresh fish at a market in Paris 16