PPG presents: PGC on Le Mur...

Le M.U.R. - # 102 - PhotoGraffCollectif - August 4/2011
BLOGS:
PhotoGraff Collectif
Graff à la Forge
Graff à Dénoyez
Le Mur d'Oberkampf

____

The Black Market of Belleville...

... Illegal, yet so real :

It is a pretty wild and mobile market, generally displaying between the Ménilmontant
and the Belleville subway stations but, sometimes, it can unexpectedly spread until
the Place du Colonel Fabien.





Several hundred residents - exasperated by the noise, and the dirt that devastate the
boulevard when hawkers leave the ground - marched on May 21, between the subway's
stations of Couronnes and Belleville, to denounce the illegal market that plagues the
neighborhood.



Every day, a large number of hawkers settle on the pavement, deploying an incredible
array of items - recoverd from the trash as well as stolen - like secondhand shoes and
clothes, old transistors, pots and broken appliances, cell phones and computers...
and so on.


The City Council and the police headquarters didn't seem, for now, to have found a
solution to put an end, once for all, to the illegal occupation of the public space.

Then, the urban cleansing services... well, they keep cleaning.
___

A Sunday like any other in Belleville...

I wanted to test a Sony H55, so I made a ride in Belleville...

[rue Dénoyez, aka 'Graffiti street']
For once during this rotten summer, there was the sun ... although it kept me from seeing
through the screen what I was shooting, never mind! The atmosphere of the neighborhood
is there and if I can make you feel it, my goal will be achieved.


[the 'Chinatown' area].



[Boulevard de Belleville].

[Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud - a curious look exchange]

The 'Cannibale Café', on my way back to Oberkampf.
___

Strolling with Yellow Cats in the Goutte d'Or.

Yes, lots of yellow cats for a 3-hours walk in the streets of the Goutte d'Or.
Thoma Vuille, aka M. Chat, launched the invitation, but I chose not to go
because my presence would have been likely to cause too much confusion
and misunderstanding.

[2 other tours around the Goutte d'Or, with & without yellow cats, HERE and HERE].



[Photos by © Roswitha Guillemin] - See them all HERE.

http://www.monsieurchat.fr
http://www.ttoma.tv
___

Suddenly, this summer, Le Mur began to knit...

Le M.U.R. - #101 - CollectifFranceTricot - July 16/2011
CFT - 5 knittopaths girls: Soso, Ema, Babooh, Quinc et Oury.

___
A bunch of Le Mur artists celebrated the Bastille-day, in their own way...

[Photos: Bob Jeudy]
___