À la Bastille, 2023
Bianca Cassandre  

Photography : archival pigment print · 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch

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A moment of tension and effervescence grips the public space of Paris at the Bastille. In the center of the composition, a man advances under an imposing French flag while a crowd is outlined through the smoke. Bathed in an almost unreal light, the scene oscillates between documentary observation and cinematic image.

The blue, white, and red of the flag emerge powerfully from a palette dominated by cool and vaporous tones. The isolated silhouette in the foreground contrasts with the density of the crowd in the background, giving the image a dimension that is both intimate and collective. The stretched shadows, the smoke, and the partially blurred figures transform a Parisian moment into a scene open to interpretation.

Without imposing a single narrative, At the Bastille questions the relationship between the individual, the crowd, and the symbols that occupy public space. The photograph retains the immediacy of a lived scene while exceeding its context to evoke more universal notions of belonging, memory, and collective identity.

This photograph has also been selected to illustrate the work of Bianca Cassandre in a profile published by , testifying to the editorial recognition given to her gaze on Paris and her contemporary photographic practice.

Everyday life

Political and historical

French flag

Smoke

Street photography

Urban scene

Paris

Sky blue

Bianca Cassandre, À la Bastille
France

Presentation

Bianca Cassandre is a photographer born in New York and based in Paris, whose practice lies between documentary instinct and artistic abstraction. Working mainly in the street, she uses movement, light, and intentional blur to transform fleeting encounters into images that oscillate between the recognizable and the indeterminate.

Holding a Master of Fine Arts in Photography and Image-making from Paris College of Art, she sees photography less as a recording of the visible than as an exploration of perception and memory, being interested as much in what an image can suggest or leave suspended as in what it shows.

Bianca's work was the subject of a four-page report in the magazine, highlighting her distinctive use of intentional blur and movement. Her professional background also includes assignments around the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Her works have been exhibited at the Bastille Design Center, Les Frigos and The Muisca Gallery, as well as at DCS Contemporary in Karlsruhe, Germany.

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