The Parisian cemeteries are beautiful little cities, filled with famous painters, writers and other artists. They are incorporated into the city, in the sense that you could be walking across a bridge – as in this shot – and take a peek to see if anyone famous has arrived. These are genuinely famous people – famous for doing something – as opposed to being famous for having a million Twitter followers. Now if they could only twitter from the grave…
To take a shot like this with a medium format camera on a tripod, you pretty much have to setup and wait for something to happen. I had seen a number of people stop and stick their heads through to see the cemetery – so I set up and waited, and waited… and waited…
Camera: Rollei Twin Lens Reflex zeiss planar f2.8 lens
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