Un jour, la rue

Taking the role of a photo-reporter, I walk through the city-centre streets. I am interested only in people who are immobile, standing or seated ; in those who are not walking. The punks, junglers, down-and-outs, the lost, the strikers, poll-researchers, the young, the old, the peaceful, the aggressive, the chatterers, the unobtrusive ; of the morning or the evening, I wander at the mercy of chance meetings with those who people the inner city. I’m interested in how they present themselves, how they and those who pass by participate in the theatre of the street, and of whom the observer is not always aware, being either too busy or too indifferent. My own part in all this is just to be there, in the present, as close as possible, to make the barriers more permeable, creating the opportunity for understanding. "A day in the street", it’s a sidelong glance at those who inhabit the margins of our neighbourhoods, at what happens every day, so alive in spite of its banality.