Permanent Tourist

by Mark Howells-Mead

Posts about paris

  • Sad attempt at romance

    Compare and contrast the trends on the Pont des Arts bridge in Paris. The first of these photos was taken in 1996 or 1997 and the second was taken last weekend. These days, the lattices (and some of the old-fashioned street lights) along both sides of the bridge are covered completely in personalized padlocks, attached…

  • C’était un Rendezvous

    C’était un Rendezvous

    One of my favourite pieces of non-fiction film: an eight and a half minute sequence filmed by Claude Lelouch on the streets of Paris in 1976.

  • Notes from a flight home

    Short observational notes taken on a flight between Edinburgh and Geneva.