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Paris - Marché aux Puces de St-Ouen (Flea Market) at Porte de Clignancourt - the last time, I promise!

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This time you find us leaving Marche Dauphine and yet more chairs I struggled to part with and moving down Rue des Rosiers to Rue Paul Bert. Here you will find the lovely La Petite Maison & incredible Colonial Concept which is full of fascinating pieces such as stuffed zebras and amazing african masks. This is as far as I made it and nowhere near the 6 hectares available but I will be back, with a shipping container!

Paris - 13 years ago and it feels like yesterday

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This one was taken nearly 13 years ago, on my first trip to Paris, with the first 'real' camera I bought myself. It was probably the day I finally decided to drop everything and try to become a photographer professionally. 13 years later and I am here again.

Paris - Marché aux Puces de St-Ouen (Flea Market) at Porte de Clignancourt - Round Two

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Second time around and this time we are at the amazing Marche Dauphine and I am thinking I need to go into shipping in order to get everything home I want to bring with me. I don't know why I torture myself. Photographs will have to suffice. Speaking with the fascinating Isabelle Maleval of 'Presents Passes' about what to do with the lifetimes work of her late father, a wartime and post war photographer, was also a highlight, as well as her beautiful collection of course. Just to think 60 years worth of negatives, plates and prints that have never seen the light of day, I hope they are in a cool dry place.

Paris - 59 Rue de Rivoli and Chez Robert, Electron Libre - Ateliers d'Artistes

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Only in Paris would you discover a 6 level building on a major boulevard that has been converted into a working art studio/gallery, that invites you to wander through and watch artists whilst they work. Previously a squat, 59 Rivoli houses a multitude of amazing talents, from the refined beautiful work of Jerome Btesh, who graciously let me photograph him whilst he worked, to the completely fascinating chaos of the Musee of Igor Balut. A sensory overload right in the middle of everything. I just wish every other major city had the guts to let the artists take over what would otherwise be commercial office space!