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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…
Jean Dujardin at Cannes, 2011
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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 Dujardin at Cannes, 2011
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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 Dujardin at Cannes, 2011
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Fountains, frozen, the Louvre Paris

And not a drop to drink… This edit was inspired by an extremely severe bout of winter flu during which I lay parched and feverish with my tongue stuck to the roof of my mouth, yet strangely nauseated by the taste of water. Hydrophobic,…
Jean Dujardin at Cannes, 2011
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Love is…in the air

Moments before swooping to their roosts as the sun set on 2010, the last starling murmuration of 2010 formed a heart that beat twice before dispersing into the evening air. A number of theories attempt to explain the birds' behaviour:…
Jean Dujardin at Cannes, 2011
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A little drop…of belle epoque

Although the Carré d'Or lacks the almost medieval charm of Vieux Nice, its turn of the (19th) century architecture has its own appeal. At left, the Boulangerie Multari, a chain of bakeries selling extraordinarily delicious tartes and…
Jean Dujardin at Cannes, 2011

Je crois…aux Anges

Shot at dawn, midwinter, as I walked along the Promenade des Anglais. I noticed the gulls' wings stirring as they fed at the water's edge, and was ready with the camera by the time they'd taken flight. Other than sharpness and white balancing,…