Day 4

l'Ossuaire Municipal (Catacombs)

When we arrive near the entrance of the catacombs we were immediately met with a monster of a queue and waited a good hour. It was well worth it in the end because we got to visit a massive part of actual French history. We were literally walking through a massive part of French history, not only that but it was, in it own way, almost beautiful. In a really weird way.

Whilst in the catacombs we saw an incredible amount of skull and bone, just walls and walls made from bodies, some people felt sick or ill but i felt sort of bad because when the catacombs were under construction they just dumped all the bones into a quarry completely unorganised and when someone finally did decide to do something about it, it was far to late to distinguish who's bones belonged to who  and we are left with just a mash of bones, skulls placed with other people bones. And, to me at least, I think that's incredibly sad because if someone was tracking a relative down or for any reason wanted to grieve how could they? they ancestor is now hidden and scattered across a sea of other bones.  

Henri Cartier Bresson Foundation

The Bresson Foundation was easily my favourite museum we went to the entire time for a similar reason I enjoyed "The Thinker" because just before we left for France I was just finishing up a few responses to his work, his photography style is so amazing, each photograph he takes can be analysed into such detail. You can really see how much effort goes into every photo he takes.

This is by far my favourite photo of the whole trip and I have a good idea why i like it so much, the image hasn't got a lot of detail but it still speaks volumes, it might be very monotone but that just adds to how good this photo is, the flock of birds and silhouette of a man in a trench coat work together so well 

I really enjoyed Sergio Lerains work because he didn't use conventional methods of photography, he does follow rule of thirds religiously he didn't blur his photos to create a focal point, instead he used other methods like fog/mist or, my favourite, negative space, he creates the most beautiful photos with negative space, because they're black and white with some lighting he creates almost silhouettes in every day life

Cimetière Du Montparnasse

The Cimetière Du Montparnasse is a famous french cemetery which houses some of the most famous people, including some name artist such as man ray and Baltsar Lobo

While we were in the cemetery we visited many generic graves but a few like Lobo's grave, were very interesting, Lobo's in particular because his grave was one of his own sculptures