Paris

The city of love where love has never been the priority.

Paris is an amalgamation of antagonisms and contradictions. Within its streets and across its boulevards resides the juxtaposition of the beautiful and the ugly. Paris is a cultural battleground, whose geography is hard-fought between competing ideologies. Its Napoleonic architecture, and other relics of its fallen aristocracy, compete with the modern buildings of capitalism for the audience’s attention. The Paris portrayed in the literature and the movies that haunt our collective memories has, in patches, succumbed to the yearning scream of its forgotten…