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What if Paris, the City of Light, suddenly went dark, wiped off the map, emptied of its inhabitants, like the deserted megalopolis of a fallen empire? Like Will Smith as the last living human, wandering through a post-apocalyptic New York in I Am Legend, Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre bring their dystopian fantasy to life in Les Ruines de Paris.

Exploring the city and playing with the tourist and cultural symbols that define the capital's image, the duo of photographers, specialists and pioneers of urbex, plunge us into a post-apocalyptic setting, a kind of visual metaphor for our …