Paris Nord

Myr Muratet
Paris Nord

Photographs: Myr Muratet

Publisher: Building Books

240 pages

Pictures: 153

Year: 2020

ISBN: 978-2-9567815-7-8

Comments: Softcover with PVC dustjacket, 31 x 24 cm.First edition. Color pictures. Graphic design by Mathias Schweizer. Signed by Myr Muratet.

First monograph by Myr Muratet, “Paris Nord” offers a sensitive look at the fragile, precarious and inventive forms developed by populations living on the margins. Through images taken from the photographer’s major series (Paris-Nord, Wasteland, CityWalk, The flora of the wasteland), we discover the interstices of the city as so many places in which the personal and private are nestled, where the wild and the forgotten coexist with the domestic and the everyday. This intimacy is opposed by massive and anonymous forms, which fill in the loopholes to prevent occupation, pushing further the communities that depend on it. A text by Manuel Joseph in the form of a flying notebook fits into the book without being attached to it. Published on the occasion of the exhibition “Zone de confort” at Le Signe (National Center for Graphic Design) in Chaumont, with the support of Le Signe and the CNAP (National Center for Arts).

The design, styled as a fashion magazine, highlights the contrast between the Paris of the fashion world and the poverty that exists on its fringes.