DENNIS JENDERS
Hidden Interiors · 2024
Some of the best rooms in Paris ask you to look up, or through, or down at your own feet. A staircase that ends at a lamp. A clock you can stand behind. A vault holding up nothing but itself. A mosaic floor cut by a blade of light. In each of them, I kept finding the same move: framing the city or the light through the architecture rather than shooting it head-on. Stone, iron, glass, and a way through.
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The Old Window
A Gothic window inside the Conciergerie, one of the oldest interiors in Paris, light falling through the tracery onto worn stone.
The Vault
The vaulted ceiling of the Conciergerie on the Île de la Cité, one of the oldest surviving medieval halls in Paris.
The Long Hall
The great vaulted hall of the Conciergerie (the Salle des Gens d’Armes), columns and arches marching into the dark.
Up to the Light
A stone staircase near the Pont Neuf climbing between high walls toward a street lamp and open sky. Black and white, Paris, 2024. The threshold into the old stone heart of the city.
The Orsay Clock
The great clock of the Musée d’Orsay, once the Gare d’Orsay railway station, against its arched glass hall.
Behind the Clock
From behind the great glass clock face at the Musée d’Orsay, the numerals reversed and Paris beyond.
The Mosaic Floor
The mosaic floor of the Petit Palais under a diagonal of afternoon light.
The Checkerboard
A staircase and checkerboard floor inside the Louvre, raking light on stone.
Through the Pyramid
Looking up toward I. M. Pei’s glass pyramid at the Louvre, the historic facade beyond.
By the Window
A marble sculpture group backlit by a gallery window at the Louvre, the courtyard beyond.
