08
May
Malmousque//Marseille
Summer’s coming…and the pleasures of Marseille lie within its picturesque coves that are flanked by white rock and lapped by clear blue waters.
12
Apr
Le Corbusier's Iconic Rooftop To Be Transformed Into Art Space
My latest article for Untapped Cities on Ora Ito’s transformation of this iconic rooftop.
Mon tout dernier article (en anglais) pour Untapped Cities sur la transformation d’Ora Ito de ce toit emblématique.
25
Mar
Capturing the Brilliant Light of Marseille: Street Photography by Yves Vernin
He also captures the unique energy of this multicultural, Mediterranean metropolis. Very nice indeed.
11
Mar
Vieux Panier, Marseille
07
Mar
Vogue Living travel to Marseille
“It is simply magical – like monochrome Dorothy landing in Technicolor Oz – to hop on a Eurostar, escape the drizzle of London and, after a quick change in Paris or Lille, step out of Marseille’s Saint-Charles station into a blinding Mediterranean sun with the terracotta-roofed city laid out below.”
06
Mar
They talk about the delights of Paris in Spring, but what about Marseille?
26
Feb
A Disappearing Marseille: On the Front Line of Gentrification.
Amidst a continuing process of regeneration, the area around Marseille’s docks hosts a number of ghosts. Old store fronts, boarded up and awaiting redevelopment give clues to the neighbourhood’s previous incarnation as an area of small business, there to serve a local working population.
In preparation for a new series documenting Marseille’s changing neighbourhoods, I wandered the streets snapping the faded façades before they vanish completely, soon to be turned into luxury retail stores.
15
Feb
J1: A New Cultural Centre in Marseille
An article I wrote for Untapped Cities on the J1 exhibition space in Marseille.
08
Feb
“As France’s oldest city, Marseilles has a significant cinematic culture, dating back to the 1890s when the Lumière brothers shot many films there. Due to its prolific film industry in the 1920s, Marseilles was referred to as “the French Los Angeles.”
World Film Locations: Marseilles examines the representations of this port city in cinema, through essays and film scene reviews devoted to an exploration of its topography as depicted by Jean Epstein, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean Renoir, Jean-Jacques Beineix, and many others. This volume showcases Marseilles’s diversity as articulated onscreen: from the winding streets of the Panier to the Old Port’s noisy markets, from the bustling Canebière to the dockyards of the Grand Port Maritime, from the cliffs of Provençal encircling the city to sun-drenched calanques leading to the dazzling cerulean sea. World Film Locations: Marseilles features maps of film scenes, high-quality screengrabs, and images of movie locations as they appear today, accompanied by original texts penned by leading international film scholars and critics and an interview with Marseillais director Robert Guédiguian. Marseilles has been named a 2013–14 European Capital of Culture and this book is a fitting and timely tribute.”
World Film Locations/Marcelline Block
01
Feb
Marseille Graffiti Project:
http://marseillegraffitiproject.wordpress.com/
There’s is one thing you can’t miss in Marseille: its ubiquitous graffiti. As you will see in Marseille Graffiti Project, a lot of talent is expressed on the city’s walls but the local government does not agree, refusing to distinguish between those who express genuine talent from ‘les tagueurs’ who scrawl anything across…well, anything. While City Hall revs up its anti-graffiti machines, familiar cries are heard from those who believe that Marseille’s ongoing attempt to clean up its ‘dirty’ image is also a means of erasing what makes it such a unique city in the first place. The debate continues…
