Swimming Porte de la Villette

A silver film photograph taken in the early 1980s in Paris.

In the summer glow of vacation time, a child swims in one of the basins of Porte de la Villette in Paris.

Blaise Grenier captured the gaze of this child, imbued with melancholy, revealing the duality of urban existence, between pleasure and solitude, in a tableau both vibrant and poignant of this artificial urban environment.

This silver film photograph has neither been retouched nor cropped!