Trente-six vues de Notre-Dame exhibition at the Photaumnales festival in Beauvais

Trente-six vues de Notre-Dame
at the Photaumnales festival

Open from 20 September 20 to 31 December 2025

La cathédrale de Beauvais
8 Rue Philippe de Beaumanoir
60000 Beauvais
France

About Thirty-Six Views of Notre Dame

Icon, architectural feat, religious sanctuary, subject and muse, Notre-Dame de Paris embodies multiple meanings. Since the invention of photography in 1839, photographers have continued to photograph it, until the dramatic fire of April 15, 2019. Tomas Van Houtryve began photographing Notre-Dame cathedral in 2009, first informally, then as part of a commission to follow the restoration work after the fire of 2019. Choosing to work with a 19th century wooden camera and the wet collodion process, Van Houtryve seeks parallels with the previous restoration of Notre-Dame in the mid-19th century, carried out by the architect Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc. Inspired by the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai, Van Houtryve revisits the Parisian icon in unique and unexpected situations. Using a range of old and new techniques, he questions and reinterprets the visual representation of the Paris monument.