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A Fresh Look at Urban Mobility - Un nouveau regard sur la mobilité urbaine 

March 3, 2015 
by Gueorgui Pinkhassov 
A Fresh Look at Urban Mobility - Un nouveau regard sur la mobilité urbaine

"Transport is my element. As far back as I can remember, and even before that perhaps, I seemed to hear the sound of wheels.
For me transport is a symbol of freedom and change, and it's impossible to imagine my job without it.
Every station, every stop, every second sees the banal and the exceptional come together.
We move forward through the stations one after another as if through a series of different lives.
It's so intriguing I simply have to try to capture that.
The rapid strobe effect of the constantly changing landscape captivates me, and as long as I can stay awake, I keep taking photographs."

RATP commissioned Gueorgui Pinkhassov to photograph the theme of urban mobility. His images were displayed in 16 Paris metro stations in the summer of 2014.

Format: Hardcover.
Size: 18.8 x 25.5 cm.
Pages: 96.
Publisher: La Martinière, March 5, 2015.

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