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Les Champs Numeriques: Nice’s Promenade du Paillon

Nice's Coulée Verte - or, loosely translated, 'Green Corridor' - replaces two monumental, aspirational but irredeemably ugly brutalist structures; its central bus station (Gare Routiere) and a spectacularly hideous public car park. Both…
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Strange Fruit: Michael Douglas, Matt Damon
  Behind the Candelabra

Playing someone (in)famously described as… … a deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love …takes a lot of humour.…
Jean Dujardin at Cannes, 2011
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Scooped! a kiss from Jean Dujardin

Somehow, I managed to steal a kiss from Jean Dujardin, who was wildly popular with the French crowd at Cannes, and wholly unknown by everyone else, back then in May 2011. Somehow, all the fuss seemed to be about Uggy, the dog, winner of…
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Swan, meditating, St James’s Park

This swan caught my eye one sunlit evening as I crossed the park. Although the image required a bit of retouching - removing debris from the surface of the water and upping the contrast to remove a green tinge from the lake, as far as'nature'shots…
Jean-Michel Jarre, Port de Hercules, Monaco
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I Love Paris (I): St Germain des Pres

One of the greatest photographic challenges posed by Paris in winter is the city's lack of colour. The dull skies paint the city grey but colours, when they do appear, seem unexpectedly vivid…
Jean-Michel Jarre, Port de Hercules, Monaco
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Mushroom magic: the season is upon us…

This vivid mound of mushrooms, at London's extremely trendy Borough Market, is worth its weight in some heavy metal, if not gold. If, however, you're prepared to don your wellies and get your hands dirty, you can save yourself a small fortune,…
Jean-Michel Jarre, Port de Hercules, Monaco
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High on Oxygène: Jean-Michel Jarre en Monaco

After a few days of scandal and gossip - that spread, like an epidemic, from the boutiques of Monaco to the pages of Mail Online, Charlene - having tried to flee the country - said "I do" and the celebrations kicked off. Rumours of …
Jean-Michel Jarre, Port de Hercules, Monaco
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We Have a Chest: Cheryl Cole hits Cannes

  It's true that you've never got your camera to hand when you really want one, and I kicked myself earlier in the week as I happened upon DeNiro, Jude Law and Linn Ullmann exiting the back of the Majestic Hotel, where the Festival…
Jean-Michel Jarre, Port de Hercules, Monaco
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Welcome to India

"What's that smell?" I asked my neighbour as the airgate connected to our plane, and local air seeped into the cabin. We'd struck up conversation during the closing credits of True Grit, and chatted sporadically throughout the eight-hour…