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Author: Alice Quillet

Posted on December 31, 2004April 2, 2017

A Towering Love Affair

Winnie Denker is afraid of heights. Yet she has spent the best part of the last 20 years taking pictures of the Eiffel Tower, precariously balancing herself and 60 kilos-worth of large format camera on the tower’s various extremities. Continue reading “A Towering Love Affair”

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