dreaming of paris, part 3

i got home tonight to find the lmcc mcaf contract in the mailbox. pretty straight forward contract. even i think i can understand it. but i'm going to get my "legal team" to look at it over the weekend. like what happens if i need to back out and say go to paris for a residency.

if anything gets me the residency i think the concept of my proposal is killer. originally i though of doing something like this for jackson heights, but in new york i already have a major project to undertake for echito and have to juggle a day job with it.

so this is what i was thinking...

Paris is a great food city. The traditional French cuisine is beginning to change. Steak au poivre is now being served with Tunisian couscous and Vietnamese pho. Immigrant flavors from the neighborhoods of Montparnasse, Montmatre, the Bellvue and the Latin quarter are sparking these changes.

I will document through photography the diverse communities surrounding Gare du Nord. To the south, it is filled with South Asian and Mauritian shops and includes the eclectic such as an Indo-mexican restaurant. Around Place de la Chapelle, Pakistani bazaars are mashed with Moroccan tagine and Greeks and Turks run competing sandwich shops. Chinese banquet halls on Rue de Torcy change into North African fish markets along Rue Myrha just across the Gare du Nord's tracks.

Though far-reaching and diverse, it is still Paris, filled with cafes, choix pastry and Monoprixes.

I will work in both the traditional and digital photography process and requiring access to darkroom and computer facilities.

I envision an exhibition of images in the style of mocked up of a combination cookbook, atlas, tour guide tear sheets. It will show the changing identity of Paris as well as how Paris has changed immigrants' identities.