Les Nuits de Place Blanche

Christer Stromholm (Stockholm, Sweden, 1922-2002), closely linked with the existentialist media of his time, moved to Paris in the late 1950s and lived in the vicinity of the Place Blanche, near the Pigalle quarter. There he befriended a community of transsexuals and transvestites who worked in the streets and hotels nearby, and began to photograph them showing their most vulnerable and fierce beauty. The series, first published in Sweden in 1983, became the most emblematic work of Strömholm, symbolizing what this artist meant to work with photography. That is, the possibility not only of "capturing the moment", but also of deepening the great questions of life: love, death and human loneliness. 23 images