This selection of 28 photographs from the series Diffract City aims at highlighting the diffraction of shapes and colours observed on city pavements in the rain (Paris, Place de la Nation, in this series).

The glimers of light, the play of colours enlivened by the rain and artificial lighting at dusk recreate abstract, strange, often fascinating shapes, giving rise to an unrecognisable urban environment, a sort of parallel city, another reality.

Clara Maïda, January 2007