Review of Mairie du 13ème arrondissement

4 years ago

Mayor, dear Jerome

Mayor, dear Jerome

Thank you again for the welcome that you have kindly reserved for our exhibition project, within your walls, the last aerial photos of Palmyra, before destruction.
Upon my return from Brittany, on Saturday the 23rd, I will transmit to Philippe, as he asked me, a sample of these rather striking images, of which the whole is composed of more than 80 units.
Made discreetly by my son CHRISTOPHE, paramotor, during a sports trip to Syria, in 2008, these photos, in addition to their emotional charge and their archeological value nowadays, have a dual photographic originality: from the Grand Amphitheater to the Arab castle through the temples and the quadriga, they detail the site in close-ups, at very low altitude (15 m), or the embrace in hyper-wide plan, in its entirety. We have to make them known, it seems to me, in partnership perhaps with the IMA, the Ministry and especially with the refugees, SO THAT THIS PEARL OF THE DESERT IS NOT ANYTHING A GHOST!

Some of the images are already drawn and framed in formats ranging from 30-45 to 50-75.
Yours sincerely