Notes on Presence, delves into societyâsâand our ownâperceptions of women of a certain age, inspired by a debate on the market value of people that I participated in a few years ago. In Notes on Presence, the protagonist observes, meets, and photographs a variety of people to explore how societyâand we as individualsâview aging women. The text is accompanied by portraits of queen statues, Les Reines de France et Femmes illustres, located in the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris. According to a French couple the author met in the garden, the statues form a small matriarchy within an otherwise...

Notes on Paname opens during the summer of the Paris Olympics and then moves on to the tenth anniversary of the 2015 attacks. Through brief reflections accompanied by images of bistro terraces, this book explores the confusing emotions of love and belonging to a city that isn't one's own.