No. photographs the urban landscape with a candid eye, capturing symmetries and relationships rarely if ever noticed by the city's regular passersby. The photographs bring across the labyrinthine nature of the urban space, communicating its overarching gravity and sensationalizing its proportions. As a result, the viewer finds himself a wanderer in No.'s framed capitals. No. grew up with a father in the French Navy and was inspired from a young age by her father's incessant travels across the world. This in turn prompted her to begin exploring at a young age, and freezing every sight that caught her attention with a child's sense of first-time wonder. Today, her work still retains this unique and curious quality, but has an added polish and sense of drama as well.
Having studied urbanism and geography, No. is passionately fond of architecture, and sees parallels between the city and its people, both being in her eyes "complex, changing, beautiful, sad…" And yet, as each work reveals and magnifies, No. sees "beauty where people see nothing."
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