The metro and the project

Early on while in Paris I discovered a world underground in the metro. Parisians and tourists all move quickly through and around the great city by means of a subway system of underground routes, tunnels and train tracks. There are 14 lines and four levels of traffic, which efficiently transport people everywhere. I cannot claim to totally understand its workings yet but I could see immediately that this complex system was one of the most successful design feats of its time, and of any time. Trains are prompt, often filled to the brim with people, stations are varied and interesting. I started taking pictures.
Then I went to French class where we all talked about what we were doing (in French) and learned about Axel Singer, a composer from Munich who because he was interested in what he called the sous-terrain, the underground, was recording sounds on the metro. We decided to collaborate and will perform his music, accompanied by my photographs in some variation of a slideshow format on October 24 at the Cité in Paris. I will go back.
While I’m there, I will have an exhibition of some of the other work I did during May and June. This will open on October 18 at the Cité Internationale des Arts and be open unil October 28.