I am Des Coulam and I live in Paris.

My work involves capturing and archiving the everyday sounds of Paris in, as far as I know, a more comprehensive way than it’s been done before.

I describe myself as a flaneur, endlessly walking the streets of Paris, observing through active listening and, in the words of Robert Doisneau, one of the great twentieth-century Parisian street photographers, capturing “that gratuitous, never-ending show for which no ticket is needed.” And it is from the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Parisian street photographers that I take my inspiration to do the work that I do.