PANDEMONIUM: A City of Lights on Dim

A zine composed of photos taken in Paris during the height of the pandemic

In March 2020, I arrived in Paris on a gap year. I had been hoping to experience life in a big city, but just one week after my arrival, fate put paid to those hopes. As the city fell into lockdown, I found myself stranded in a strange new world, oceans away from family and friends, oblivious as to when I could see home again.

During those twelve months, as the pandemic raged, I found myself walking around deserted streets, a camera in hand, capturing a city of lights on dim. In a strange way, those aimless wanderings came to form a sort of therapy, and so, ironically, the very act of documenting the chaos all around me helped keep me from succumbing to it.

The result of those random walks is PANDEMONIUM, a zine composed of 32 photos taken in and around Paris. While the images are largely spontaneous and documentary in nature, they also aim to express the sense of…