Paris in Black and White

Johannes Kirchhoff • November 18, 2025

Paris in Black and White an Experience

This time I was in Paris with my wife and a photographer college also with his wife. In November 2025 the Paris Photo took place. This is the biggest art fair where photo galleries are presenting art photos, photo books, ... . I was very impressed of this fair and got many helpful suggestions for my own photo work.


Also with the photo fair Gerhard Richter a famous painter of our time was presented by the LVMH Museum. This was also a place I have to go.


My camera in Paris was the little Black Leica Q2M und for some color pictures my Huawei Smartphone. So I took many photos in Black and  White. I will show a selection of them to you.


Photos in Street Situations

We moved in Paris with the Metro and by using our foots. Doing this I fetched some interesting impressions:

Paris Tour Eifel

Paris Black and White Low Light

The Leica Q2 M is an extreme Low Light Camera with up to 100,000 ISO. This high range I have used very often this time. For some photos I used Photoshop to denoise the image. Some  Photos I have left in the status. Please let me show the dark side of Paris:

Metro Station Strasbourg St Denis

Paris Photo the ultimate Photo Fair

On Friday 14th I visited the Paris Photo. In Europe this is the biggest photo fair. This event gives me a lot of input for my further work. The location of the fair is the Grand Palais. This building was designed and erected  for the first world exposition in Paris. It is an impressive location. Let me share my impressions with you:

Roof Grand Palais

Museum Louis Vitton a Spectacular Building

With the exhibition of the works and paintings of Gerhard Richter I visited the Museum LVMH a second time. I took the photos in BW and must say that I discovered  many new aspects of the building. Let me show you some of them:

LVMH Museum from the Parkside

Some Other Colorful Moments

As I mentioned before, I took also my Huawei Smartphone with me. Here let me share some colorful moments with you:

Trocadero, Tour Eifel
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