LOOK here at the video presentation
Paris has about 600 impasses, cités, villas and squares: streets that come to a dead end. Cul-de-sacs, as they used to be called in French and are still called in English. Within the Périphérique, Paris is the most densely populated city in Europe, with more than 20,000 inhabitants per square kilometre. This book depicts about 200 cul-de-sacs from the 1st to the 20th arrondissement for the first time. The photographs offer a glimpse of part of Paris that usually goes unnoticed.

The photobook PARIS IMPASSE by Karin Borghouts and graphic designer Jean-Michel Meyers was shortlisted for the LUMA RENCONTRES DUMMY AWARD 2019 at Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, France.

The photographs are taken from 2011 to 2019. Most of them during an artist-in-residence period in fall 2015, thanks to the Flemish Government.

Photography Book Paris Impasse
26 x 19 x 3 cm
304 pages, 225 photographs, softcover
Concept & photography: Karin Borghouts
Graphic design: Jean-Michel Meyers
Text FR, NL, ENG: Eric Min
Snoeck Publishers
ISBN 978-9-4616-1648-7

Order here a book with a set of 6 postcards: 38 euro
Order here a special edition, signed and numbered book with archival pigment print (only 40 books): 99 euro
Order here a framed print: 500 euro

The photography book Paris Impasse will be published November 2020.

Interview Boekenmararaton op VRT NU (Dutch)

LOOK AT THE VIDEO made for the Night of the Year 2020 Les rencontres de la photographie Arles.