75 Parisiennes

Photographer Baudouin breaks archetypes in his photographic series 75 Parisiennes, a realistic, contemporary and original look at Paris through Parisian women and their homes. A tribute to the everyday Parisian woman, far removed from the mythologised Coco Chanel or Brigitte Bardot.

The femme has always been a source of inspiration for many artists. Jets of paint, kilos of plaster, strips of celluloid and many other things have been depicting the female essence for centuries. Today, the aesthetic canons of the West have helped to idealise a female model that is often far from reality. Until you come across proposals such as 75 Parisiennesbreaking archetypes in a magnificent photographic series absolutely out of the ordinary.

With the aim of offering a realistic, contemporary and original view of Paris and its inhabitants, the French photographer nicknamed Baudouin for six years, he went into three hundred homes of Parisian women, "ordinary" people of different ages and professions, capturing them posing in suggestive poses with the objects that accompany them in their daily lives.

The result: a tribute to the femme parisienne far removed from the mythologised Coco Chanel or Brigitte Bardot.

In an interview in the newspaper The GenteelBaudouin explains that with his project he wants to portray a modern and realistic look of the Parisian woman, and for this he uses their homes, because they are the settings that best describe his characters.

Certainly, both the models and the houses have nothing to do with the traditional stereotypes, here they are a clear example of the authentic and the extraordinary, a mon-apart (read it here in French) in the fullest sense of the word.