Paris traffic. We’re in the middle of la rentrée des vacances – returning from vacation. “La rentrée” is synonymous with “early September,” two words heavy with all the activity related to back-to-school and return-to-work. After a month of comfortably uncrowded metro cars and bike-friendly traffic, the city is filling up with Parisians, rested and ready for action. But by October they’ll be planning their next break.

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.

Heureux soient les fêlés, car ils laisseront passer la lumière. – Blessed are the cracked, for they let the light shine through. – Michel Audiard, French screenwriter and film director.

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 ephemeral image of a cyanotype, after the paper has been exposed to light, but before it is developed. Development in water will wash away the yellow (un-reacted iron solution) leaving only Prussian blue tones and white.

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.

Summer and the Samaritaine, two things talked about in the past tense that we wish were not. This week in Paris, every three hours it feels like late September blows through.

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.

A woman photographing Niki de Saint Phalle‘s Stravinsky Fountain next to 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.

The symbol of the false myth that if you put a padlock on the Pont des Arts in Paris, you and your love will one day return. In the meantime, that bridge is falling apart under the weight of padlocks, which are now forbidden, so locks can be found anywhere, even up here on the 2nd floor of the Eiffel Tower. J & A, do you still have the key?

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 beautiful universe inside a lemon; patterns recalling butterfly wings.

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 concrete cupola of Saint Esprit church in Paris’s 12th district.

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.