Selfie Summary

Well this is my last blog post from Paris. It's been an incredible 4 months and i've made myself a little souvenir from all my selfie pics. Selfies seem to be getting a bit of a bad rap at this cultural moment for their self indulgence and narcissism but when i watch this sequence of pictures my image seems to disappear from the center and i see the circumstances of the moment return, the taste of a lemon tart i just ate, the smell of fresh laundry or the sound of the metro rumbling a few feet below me. I started taking these photos mockingly, as a sort of satire on the self absorption of tourism, but then i see the image of myself standing at that street corner or in front of the cathedral and i remember that moment vividly and with affirmation, claiming that old graffiti standard, 'i was here'.