Unposed Paris

Paris becomes the setting for a street photography workshop with photographer and cinematographer Hugo Jouxtel. Designed to sharpen your eye, it invites you to move through the city with greater attention, discovering and photographing scenes as they unfold in real time. Depending on the route, you may work through lesser-known streets, lively neighborhoods, or famous landmarks, but the focus remains the same: the shifting relationship between people, light, movement, and place. Along the way, you work on candid photography and visual storytelling while developing a more responsive way of seeing. The workshop adapts to your level, so no previous experience is required. With Hugo’s expert guidance, you refine your attention to passing scenes, human presence, and the visual tension created by the city in motion. Paris opens up through the moments people live every day on the street. As you photograph them, you begin to see the city with fresh eyes and build a stronger connection to it.

Paris is a city many people feel they already know before they even arrive. This experience works against that assumption. Guided by a professional photographer and a Parisian, you engage with the city as a place of constant visual change shaped in real time on streets full of movement and surprise. Hugo’s approach stays deliberately clear of polished but soulless images, postcard views, and staged scenes that could belong anywhere. The focus is on the contemporary spirit of Paris, approached through real-time observation and instinct. Hugo encourages you to follow the city’s rhythm, notice details that usually go unseen, and respond to what the street is giving you by becoming part of its flow rather than forcing a picture onto it. The result is not only stronger street photography skills, but a more alert way of moving through Paris itself. Each photograph carries something of Paris, but also something of you, even from behind the lens.

Hugo Jouxtel is a photographer, cinematographer, and film director who has lived in Paris since 2009, just a short walk from the location of one of Cartier-Bresson’s famous photographs, and whom he regards as one of his masters. He has dedicated his life to making images, moving or still, through videos, films, multimedia projects, photo shoots, and now also photographic itineraries through the streets of Paris, which he introduces to you through his eyes as both a Parisian and a photographer.

Comfortable attire and walking shoes. Your photography gear.