Cosmopolitan

Four Eyes Editions is pleased to present COSMOPOLITE, the first book of the photographer Fabien Ecochard. The Parisian photographer immerses us in the cauldron of the capital and its inhabitants, it captures its accidents and beauties in his Belleville neighborhood, on the right bank and elsewhere. Far snapshots of a fantasized Paris, Fabien Ecochard immerses us in the Paris of Parisians, in a bustling, electric and modern Paris. All the The photographs in the book were taken in Paris between 2017 and 2024. The book will be presented for the first time at a private party on June 13 2024 then in public presentation on September 19, 2024 at the Leica Store Village Royal in Paris. Born in 1983, Fabien Ecochard is a Parisian street photographer. His photographic approach is very much influenced by the work of the pioneers of color street photography and draws on cinematographic references. He has always been interested in people, people in their environment, because according to him, both tell their stories together. He conceives his photos as a succession of encounters; between a character and a light, between lines and colors, between a before and an after, between a thoughtful idea and a happy coincidence. Above all, he likes the idea of ​​giving the banal something daily a filmic color. Fabien Ecochard is today recognized for the his view of the capital. A Paris of today, vibrant, cosmopolitan, unusual and sometimes chaotic. He strives to counter the clichés who accompany the city to try to capture the energy and complexity of a world city in constant motion. In 2024, it becomes the first beneficiary of the Leica Camera France initiative aimed at supporting and support an author in the production of his first monograph.