PARIS GLACIAL

A study of Paris after a great snowstorm

Couple walking in the snow-covered Tuileries Garden, Paris, fine art photography on medium format black and white film.

Paris Glacial I

Bare branches edged with snow against a winter sky in Paris, fine art photography on medium format black and white film.

Paris Glacial II

Black dog walking in the snowy Tuileries by the Louvre, Paris, photographed on medium format black and white film.

Paris Glacial III

Bird perched on a Parisian street lamp against a cloudy sky, fine art photography on medium format black and white film.

Paris Glacial IV

Empty, snow-covered Tuileries Garden with the Eiffel Tower in the distance, medium format black and white film photography.

Paris Glacial V

Tuileries Garden in snowy mist, the Eiffel Tower barely visible beyond, medium format black and white film photography.

Paris Glacial VI

Empty stone bench covered in snow in the Tuileries by the Louvre, Paris, medium format black and white film photography.

Paris Glacial VII

Empty stone benchs covered in snow in the Tuileries by the Louvre, Paris, medium format black and white film photography.

Paris Glacial VIII

A study of Paris after a great snowstorm

2017, Paris, France

FORMAT: medium format film, black and white

SOLO EXHIBITION, BNP PARIBAS, SÃO PAULO, 2026
SOLO EXHIBITION, CARIBÉ GALLERY, SÃO PAULO, 2025
CASACOR SP, SÃO PAULO, 2025
SELECTED BY PHOTOVOGUE, 2022

(curatorial text)

During an exceptionally harsh snowstorm in 2017, Paris became another city: empty streets, closed gardens, a silence suspended in absolute white. Years before the isolation imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the urban rhythm was interrupted, forcing residents and tourists into introspection. At that moment, the photographer walked through the city, recording the transformation of space and the way the landscape imposed a new choreography on daily life.

The series carries a synaesthetic charge, evoking calm and silence. By absorbing the usual noise, the snow creates a suspension of time itself. The Tuileries Garden, usually overtaken by tourists and passers-by, appears as a spectral setting, where absence becomes the protagonist.

Paris Glacial addresses the fragility of what we take to be permanent. Before the force of nature, iconic architecture yields and, in the dense white that covers façades and pavements, the image of the city dissolves and reforms, revealing that its true identity lies not in the solidity of its monuments but in the constant mutability of lived experience.

Text: Luiza Testa