©Edouard Boubat

Edouard Boubat was a well-known French photographer who sought to make photographs that were a celebration of life. After the events of WWII he decided to go for his passion and become a photographer. He focused on the poetic aspect of life and things. He took his first photograph in 1946 in reaction to the banality and horrors of the Second World War and was successful immediately, receiving the Kodak Prize the following year. Afterwards he traveled the world for the magazine Realites, but always kept a special interest in photographing his hometown, Paris.