Notre-Dame After the Fire

The headless copper statue of the apostle Saint Thomas, holding the ruler of the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc at the Socra workshop in Perigueux, France.

A team of rope specialists uses plaster to secure loose stones at the corner of the nave and south transept of the cathedral.

Scaffolding fills the interior of the nave.

Marie Parant, right, and Marie-Cecile Kfouri, left, work on the restoration of painted walls in the chapel of Saint Ferdinand.

Water damage is visible on the painted vaulted ceilings of the chapel of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows.

Volunteer carpenter Charles Barbero places a symbolic oak branch to top out a wooden roof frame during a heritage demonstration in front of the Notre-Dame.

For over eight centuries, she has drawn the gaze of Parisians and marked their hours and rites with her bells. On April 15, 2019, fire devastated the iconic Notre-Dame cathedral of Paris.

After her bells fell silent and her charred structure was fenced off from the public, I gained rare privileged access to the Notre-Dame cathedral and the teams working to save her from ruin. For over a year, I explored the sacred, the grotesque, the graceful and the defaced surfaces of Notre-Dame, turning the monument into a prism for self expression while documenting this historical moment of devastation and rebirth.

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