An exhibition held last weekend as part of the Saint-Michel/Nansouty/Saint-Michel quarter's Arty Garden Party featured a number of my photos. Fellow snapper Amandine Maurand and I had been commissioned by Bonjour Bordeaux supremo Yves Maguin to team up with him to take photographs in the surrounding neighbourhood.
Some 60 of our shots were on display at the event, which was held in the rather lovely Jardin des Dames de la Foi. As an integral part of the programme - which also featured concerts, drama productions, guided walking tours, children's workshops, yoga sessions and martial arts demos - the exhibition proved to be popular and district mayor Fabien Robert even stated that the photos uncovered a number of sights with which he was unfamiliar.
Here are the photos which Invisible Bordeaux contributed to the exhibition:
Iron curtain promise of long opening hours, Barrière Saint-Genès.
Awaiting a line B tram into central Bordeaux.
The final Bordeaux Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage stud on the old Croix
de Carrefour at Barrière Saint-Genès, as already featured on the blog.
Permanent table football set in Jardin des Dames de la Foi.
The self-service lending library in Jardin des Dames de la Foi.
Logging into Jardin des Dames de la Foi.
Alex and Ben have probably grown since 2003 but these marks remain on
the walls of Hôtel Exshaw on Rue Théodore-Gardère.
Sky/light.
Cuddly toys in a shop window on Cours de l’Argonne.
Coming up to 10AM at la Maison Internationale (formerly Hôpital des Enfants), Parvis Louis et Henry Pouyanne.
Former Hôpital des Enfants, as viewed from what used to be its courtyard, now Square de l’Argonne.
Balcony scene.
Architecture in its many forms at Bergonie tram stop, Cours de l’Argonne.
Allez les Verts. University building on Cours de l'Argonne.
Another self-service lending library, this time on Place Simiot.
The postlady is on her rounds. That's her yellow bicycle, not mine.
A musician with the weight of the world (well, of part of a building) on his shoulders.
Trompe l’œil produced by one B. Bodin, as inspired by Dalí, on Rue d’Arcachon.
The bells of École Saint-Genès.
Kinds of blue: Résidence Saint-Genès on Rue Borda.