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You can find it in the morning at the kiosk, during lunch break at the café, or crumpled up on the subway in the evening, because Paname Paper is a street photography journal about Paris by photographer Grégoire Huret, a publication that is somewhat of a UFO in the landscape of photographic publishing, but it’s a perfect and unusual way to promote street photography.
“Paname Paper is a journal that ‘tells the story of Paris through photos,’ and I chose the name Paname Paper because it’s a nice play on words: ‘Paname’ is a slang term for Paris, and adding ‘paper’ makes it sound like ‘Panama Papers.’”
The wordplay with the Panama Papers, the famous financial scandal, continues in the subtitle, as in the first issue it reads “modes de vie,” which means “lifestyle,” but the word “mode” also recalls the street photography taken during Paris Fashion Week, and “mode” also means “fashion!”
With his images, the photographer always captures “The Fleeting Moment,” which, like in the famous film, aims to be a small but true life lesson on how to passionately embrace every moment of our day; fashion also as creativity, disguise, play, and deception.
“Jouer avec les codes, brouiller les pistes”
Paname Paper — completely independent with 36 pages of street photography available for order on the website, distributed worldwide and also sold at 0fr (Paris) and Fringe (Paris) — is a daily diary, a newspaper of the streets of Paris, full of visual suggestions that intrigue and stimulate new pathways to capture always original viewpoints and exciting opportunities.
Self-taught photographer Grégoire Huret, who lives and works in Paris, found his calling in street photography to define his photographic art. His images are inspired by those everyday moments that slip past our eyes but that he captures in photos of strong visual impact. His work has been published in several outlets, including L’Œil de la Photographie, Onfilm Photo, Fisheye, Le Parisien, and Phototrend.
