Photo Works

At the corner of rue de Belleville, the Aux Folies café perpetuates the popular energy of the neighborhood. In the blue light of the morning, its terrace and facade take on a cinematic presence, under the gaze of the figures who have marked the history of Belleville.

At the corner of Avenue de Suffren and Rue de Buenos-Aires, the Castel Café unfurls its red and striped awnings a few steps from the Champ-de-Mars. Patrick Atlas composes here with the dark branches of the trees, the gold lettering of the sign and the warmth of the windows: the café becomes a Parisian scene enveloped by the blue of the morning, somewhere between a tourist address and a neighborhood brasserie.

Café Dada appears as a crossroads café, bathed in a white and bluish light that contrasts sharply with the depth of the night. At the entrance to Rue Poncelet, it is ready to welcome the awakening of the market. Patrick Atlas highlights its singular appearance: a bright, almost electric façade, where the corner architecture and reflections give the place a very contemporary urban presence.

Beneath its dark green awning and golden lights, Dupleix presents a sober, almost secretive façade typical of the 15th arrondissement. The image plays on the contrast between the warmth of the interior, the terrace, and the cold blue of the surrounding buildings: a neighborhood café transformed into a discreet stage for the Parisian dawn.

Facing the Trocadero, Café Kléber could easily get lost in the monumental imagery of the neighborhood. Patrick Atlas, on the contrary, chooses to look at it closely: its shop windows, its enveloping terrace and its interior lighting create a warm, almost intimate corner brasserie, far removed from the postcard image.

La Gitane first asserts its name, emblazoned in red letters against the night. Beneath the still-dark building, the café seems to occupy the corner like a small, bustling stage, with its illuminated windows, reflections on the ground, and its compact terrace. The image makes it a place of character, direct, lively, and instantly recognizable.

La Vielleuse displays its red facade at the foot of a more contemporary building, in a composition where the light from the café resists the darkness of the neighborhood. Patrick Atlas reveals its simple strength: a waiting terrace, a vibrant sign, a popular place that seems already awake before the city.

Le Cosy lives up to its name: the image favours softness over spectacle. The green awning, warm windows, plants, and sheltered terrace create the feeling of a welcoming, almost domestic address. In the blue of the morning, Patrick Atlas transforms this café at the corner of Picpus and Saint-Mandé into a luminous refuge.

The Courcelles stretches behind a row of trees, like a light facade in the depth of the boulevard. The photograph captures the steady warmth of the shop windows, the aligned terrace, and the light filtering through the foliage: a Parisian café captured in a calm, almost cinematic elegance.

The Dôme asserts its presence with a brightly lit, almost golden façade, where the sign echoes the warmth of the shop windows. At dawn, Patrick Atlas captures the brasserie as an institution rendered momentarily silent: a place steeped in history, isolated from its usual bustle by the morning light.

On Place du Maréchal-Juin, by Pereire metro station, Royal Péreire occupies the corner of a vast star-shaped crossroads in the 17th arrondissement, where eight avenues converge. In the image, the sign cuts through the foliage, while the metro entrance anchors the café in the everyday movement of the neighbourhood. Patrick Atlas reveals a brasserie of passage transformed into a point of reference, bringing human warmth to the urban scale of the square.

Café d’Albert stands out with its almost unexpected electric blue, which envelops the corner of its Parisian façade. Under this cool light, the warm windows and terrace create a striking contrast. Patrick Atlas presents a more nocturnal, more graphic image, where the café becomes an urban landmark in the Charonne district.

The Rotonde de la Muette unfurls its illuminated sign on the curve of its facade. In the deep blue of the morning, its elegant lines and luminous globes give it the appearance of a motionless ocean liner, moored in the heart of the 16th arrondissement.

At the corner of Rue Dauphine and Rue Mazarine, Le Buci occupies the former Montholon building, whose facades have been listed as historical monuments since 1928. In the blue of the morning, the salient angle of this 18th-century house takes on the appearance of a prow, while the lanterns and the vertical sign of the café awaken the stones of old Paris.

Le Recrutement is captured with a strong sense of frontality: a red awning, an aligned terrace, and windows opening onto a dense, warm light. The Haussmannian building, still immersed in blue, becomes the silent backdrop to a very Parisian brasserie, ready to resume its role as a meeting place.

Near Place de la Nation,

the Royal Nation asserts its corner presence with the striking red and gold of its façade. In the cool blue of the morning, the Haussmannian building recedes to reveal the brasserie as a luminous, popular, and quintessentially Parisian scene.

At twilight, the Golden Gate Bridge unfolds its glowing silhouette against the deep sky, the silent bay, and the lights of San Francisco. Patrick Atlas captures the moment when the architecture becomes almost a line of light, suspended between the fading night and the city's awakening.

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On the Embarcadero, Pier 7 extends into San Francisco Bay like a perspective suspended between the city and the water. The lines of the pier, the lampposts, and the distant presence of the Bay Bridge create a quiet, almost graphic scene. Patrick Atlas reveals a place of passage transformed into a space for contemplation, where light gives the architecture of the waterfront an almost cinematic depth.

In Yosemite Valley, the first rays of sunlight filter through the trees and set the golden morning grasses ablaze. Facing the majestic presence of Half Dome, Patrick Atlas captures a suspended moment where nature, light, and silence combine to create a landscape of almost sacred intensity.

From Tunnel View, Yosemite Valley unfolds in all its vastness, between the walls of El Capitan and the granite peaks bathed in the first light. Patrick Atlas captures this fragile moment when the sun catches the summits, transforming the landscape into a majestic scene, at once mineral, luminous, and silent.