As John Berger rightly said, cities are like human beings. They have distinct characteristics, tones, age, and gender. New York is like a career enthusiast, and London is a teenager. Paris is like a man in his 20s, while Rome is like a beautiful, sophisticated older woman. Whichever city you visit, you will gather experiences that will change the course of your life. Something similar happened to Parisian photographer Grégoire Huret when he visited New York in 2013, carrying a Rollei 35 SE gifted by his dad. “My first trip to NYC was an artistic revelation. I experienced something I’d never done before. Being lost in a big city, my only goal then was to capture on film,” he tells The Phoblographer. His brief stay transformed the way he saw Paris and his practice. “It was like my artistic needs, which were deeply hidden inside my body, surfaced for good.”
