A book of photos on containment, published in early July, will serve a good cause. The profits from "Paris Lockdown" will be donated to the Abbé Pierre Foundation. One hundred pictures illustrate the confinement in the capital: seven weeks, 55 days, 1,320 endless hours of solitude and uncertainty. The pictures are in black and white, as if to definitively freeze this time which has suddenly stopped.
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"I was impressed with the number of homeless people on the streets"
The Arc de Triomphe is abandoned on the most empty avenue in the world, the forecourt of La Défense is quite tasteless without its businessmen in ties and its women in business suits with a confident walk. A few pages later, we meet a young man in front of the Sacred Heart. He is alone, without anyone, curled up with his head in his arms. A little spotted rabbit follows in front of the tent of a homeless Gare de l'Est.
"The first morning when I took my two-wheeler and I was in Paris, I parked in rue de Rivoli and around me, I was all alone with homeless people in the street", explains the author of these hundred pictures, Fred Di Girolamo. "Maybe they are there all year round, but in general with the traffic you don't see them. Me, I only saw these people. It shocked me the first day, I was impressed with the number of homeless people on the street. "
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This book of photographs is available at Fnac and in Parisian bookstores for 15 euros, for a good cause. The original photos are also for sale on the Kong factory site to support the association.