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When the confinement began in March 2020, Antoine d'Agata decided to take to the streets of Paris. He renounces relying on the visual code of photojournalism that, as a member of the Magnum Agency, he dominates. He choose a thermal camera, blind to details and the usual colors of things. Thus, his images result from the difference in temperature of things. Yellow, very hot, alive. Black, cold, dead.

The city looks empty and ghostly, apocalyptic. It is walked by lonely figures, sometimes in rows with the now distinctive five-foot spacing. The outdoor public space is inhabited only by …