Tuesday, August 26, 2014

The Overgrown, Disused Railway That Still Runs Around Paris

The Overgrown, Disused Railway That Still Runs Around Paris


Paris has a lot of history embedded in its sprawling urban grid, which has seen thousands of years of structural change. But even though space is at a premium, there are still spots that have evaded development and slowly drifted into obscurity. When photographer Pierre Folk was new to the city, he happened upon Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture (or "Little Belt Railway"), a 20 mile stretch of disused tracks along the Parisian perimeter; then he lugged around 20 pounds of gear for the past four years taking pics of the overgrown, graffitied scene for his series "By the Silent Line."


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