“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” – Mary Oliver

Paris-based photographer Danielle Voirin travels the world and documents her experiences in photographs. She takes street photography and photojournalism a shade beyond even art, to the level of mysticism. You may see more of her work on her website DanielleVoirin.com, or her alt website, DaniVoirin.com.

Hiking in the Fontainebleau forest, about an hour outside of Paris, the sound of chainsaws in the distance, we were not expecting to see the rich red-orange life inside of a beautiful adult tree, which seems destined to be sold as firewood.

Paris-based photographer Danielle Voirin travels the world and documents her experiences in photographs. She takes street photography and photojournalism a shade beyond even art, to the level of mysticism. You may see more of her work on her website DanielleVoirin.com, or her alt website, DaniVoirin.com.

Girl on fire. A sculpture by Ingebrigt Vik in the gardens of Halsnoy Kloster, Norway.

Paris-based photographer Danielle Voirin travels the world and documents her experiences in photographs. She takes street photography and photojournalism a shade beyond even art, to the level of mysticism. You may see more of her work on her website DanielleVoirin.com, or her alt website, DaniVoirin.com.

Girl wearing Irish Claddagh ring at an Irish pub in Paris.

Paris-based photographer Danielle Voirin travels the world and documents her experiences in photographs. She takes street photography and photojournalism a shade beyond even art, to the level of mysticism. You may see more of her work on her website DanielleVoirin.com, or her alt website, DaniVoirin.com.

At the northern edge of Paris, near the flea markets of the Porte St. Ouen, there is a “green corridor” down along the old train tracks called Les Jardins du Ruisseau. At one end of this community garden, there’s an apiary, and at the other a chicken coop. An association, 500 strong, of Friends of the Gardens had existed since 2004, regularly hosting events and trading plants.

Paris-based photographer Danielle Voirin travels the world and documents her experiences in photographs. She takes street photography and photojournalism a shade beyond even art, to the level of mysticism. You may see more of her work on her website DanielleVoirin.com, or her alt website, DaniVoirin.com.

Watching the sun set from the top floor of Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

Paris-based photographer Danielle Voirin travels the world and documents her experiences in photographs. She takes street photography and photojournalism a shade beyond even art, to the level of mysticism. You may see more of her work on her website DanielleVoirin.com, or her alt website, DaniVoirin.com.

Crossing the Seine on Pont Notre Dame, looking towards the Pont au Change and Pont Neuf bridges, the brightly-lit Palais de Justice and the dark spire of Sainte Chapelle. From the Paris Blue Prints series.

Paris-based photographer Danielle Voirin travels the world and documents her experiences in photographs. She takes street photography and photojournalism a shade beyond even art, to the level of mysticism. You may see more of her work on her website DanielleVoirin.com, or her alt website, DaniVoirin.com.

The Bien Bohemio tango club in Buenos Aires. Each week people come to sing classic tango songs. Like karaoke but with live music behind you. Teachers, doctors, shop keepers, aunts, grandmothers, fathers. There are many regulars, who step onto a small stage every week to sing tragic tales. Even if you don’t speak Spanish, you understand the agony and ecstasy on their faces. And it seems each person steps onto the stage with a primal need, and steps off transformed. This woman is such a regular, she walks down among the tables to tell her story.

Paris-based photographer Danielle Voirin travels the world and documents her experiences in photographs. She takes street photography and photojournalism a shade beyond even art, to the level of mysticism. You may see more of her work on her website DanielleVoirin.com, or her alt website, DaniVoirin.com.