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New York tram renovation 2010-28
Every year, two million people climb into the cable cars suspended above the East River to visit Roosevelt Island. But from March through December 2010, the tram linking Manhattan and Roosevelt Island ceased to run. The job of renovating the New York icon fell to the French company Pomagalski, leader in urban cable transport. Behind this immense project nestled in between skyscrapers were the men who made it all possible.
They are American, French, Swiss and Canadian. Every week, their collaboration on the project requires them to confront their working methods and their cultures. After quickly realizing that my eye was a privileged witness of this astonishing aggregation, I tried to get as close as I could to those who shape our urban landscapes. I’ve discovered passions, hopes, audacities, roving, joys and pains. Above all, I’ve discovered an endearing generosity detectable in the eye of every workman on site. In front of my lens appeared a number of ordinary or atypical scenes which demonstrate the exceptional nature of adventuresome projects such as this. Today I pay tribute, in images captured through my own perspective, to the story of these workers.
Photojournalist and correspondent in the United States for more than a year, I chose to debrief from the world around me in an attempt to capture the snapshots which together compose every human existence.
New York tram renovation 2010-28
Every year, two million people climb into the cable cars suspended above the East River to visit Roosevelt Island. But from March through December 2010, the tram linking Manhattan and Roosevelt Island ceased to run. The job of renovating the New York icon fell to the French company Pomagalski, leader in urban cable transport. Behind this immense project nestled in between skyscrapers were the men who made it all possible.
They are American, French, Swiss and Canadian. Every week, their collaboration on the project requires them to confront their working methods and their cultures. After quickly realizing that my eye was a privileged witness of this astonishing aggregation, I tried to get as close as I could to those who shape our urban landscapes. I’ve discovered passions, hopes, audacities, roving, joys and pains. Above all, I’ve discovered an endearing generosity detectable in the eye of every workman on site. In front of my lens appeared a number of ordinary or atypical scenes which demonstrate the exceptional nature of adventuresome projects such as this. Today I pay tribute, in images captured through my own perspective, to the story of these workers.
Photojournalist and correspondent in the United States for more than a year, I chose to debrief from the world around me in an attempt to capture the snapshots which together compose every human existence.