Velizy-Villacoublay, France.
By Patrick Evesque
28 Nov 2008
What city do you live in? What neighborhood?
Velizy-Villacoublay, Paris suburbs, France.
What are some adjectives that describe your neighborhood?
Suburban, diversity, relatively safe.
Edge city : 21 100 inhabitants and 28 000 workers.
How long have you lived there, and what brought you there?
A bit more than 2 years.
We were looking for a piece of quiet not far from our workplaces and where kids will be able to grow up. So it was the last reasonably priced neighborhood where we could find that.
What is your favorite thing about this place? Your least favorite?
The neighborhood life.
Too much concrete, not enough place for the nature.
Do you feel that you belong there?
Not really. Before living here in Paris suburbs, I always lived in small villages where nature is always present.
That's why I found interesting to shoot these photos with a large part of skies but where we also see human constructions... Dreaming and trying to escape from the real world.
What is the most common misconception about where you live?
The city architecture.
What is a special fact about your city that you have to live there to know?
During the first part of the last century, Velizy was a military airbase where most of flight tests of the new french planes were made. But during the 2nd World War, the town was bombed and rebuilt according to plan of the new towns.
What aspect of your city do you secretly love?
My small garden, it's just a part of nature.
