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Homo Urbanus Europeanus: man vs. urban European city (26 images)
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What happens when a French photographer spends two years visiting 25 European cities? Avoiding landmarks, this black and white series has been exhibited in Bulgaria, France and Germany, with premieres due in Estonia, Poland and the UK in September and October 2009. Recognise a corner?
![Rome (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Rome2008-CopyRightJean-MarcCaracci.jpeg)
For the Homo Urbanus Europeanus project Jean Marc Caracci likes to say that he is 'working for Europe'
![Tallinn (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Helsinki2008-CopyRightJean-MarcCaracci.jpeg)
Caracci visited over twenty capitals in 15 months, a photographic marathon
![Bratislava (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Bratislava2007-CopyRightJean-MarcCaracci.jpeg)
The project started in Bratislava in 2007
![Reykjavik (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Reykjavik2008-CopyRightJean-MarcCaracci.jpeg)
'On a philosophical level, the project certainly takes on a political dimension,' says the photographer
![Prague (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Prague2008-CopyRightJean-MarcCaracci.jpeg)
'By using Europe and particularly its capitals as a frame, the idea is to gather allEuropean countries together through photography'
![Istanbul (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Istanbul2008-CopyRightJean-MarcCaracci.jpeg)
'... whether they are part of Europe yet or not.'
![Vilnius (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Vilnius2007-CopyRightJean-MarcCaracci.jpeg)
'The images of the project, whether shot in Warsaw, Tallinn or Paris, are
characterised by their 'Europeanness''
![Sofia (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Sofia 2007 - 02 - CopyRight Jean-Marc Caracci.jpeg)
'As much as possible, national and cultural particularities are not shown in the photographs'
![Berlin (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Berlin 2008 - 02 - CopyRight Jean-Marc Caracci.jpeg)
'Looking at the photos, it is difficult to recognise any country or city'
![Madrid (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Madrid2008-CopyRightJean-MarcCaracci.jpeg)
'...unless perhaps you are one of the inhabitants yourself'
![Paris (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Paris 2008 - 01 - CopyRight Jean-Marc Caracci.jpeg)
'But everybody is able to recognise Europe in all of them'
![Riga (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Riga2007-CopyRightJean-MarcCaracci.jpeg)
The Homo Urbanus Europeanus project is a way of depicting similarities between European cities
![Madrid (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Madrid2008-b-CopyRightJean-MarcCaracci.jpeg)
It also concerns loneliness in the city
![Oslo (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Oslo2008-CopyRightJean-MarcCaracci.jpeg)
Jean-Marc's subject has always been man...
![Sofia (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Sofia 2007 - 01 - CopyRight Jean-Marc Caracci.jpeg)
... caught by himself in one moment...
![Paris (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Paris 2008 - 02 - CopyRight Jean-Marc Caracci.jpeg)
... and especially in the urban environment
![Brussels (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Bruxelles2008-CopyRightJean-MarcCaracci.jpeg)
He is trying to seize, stop moments of life
![Bucharest (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Bucarest2009-CopyRightJean-MarcCaracci.jpeg)
This is done in a modest way to perpetuate the moments in the history of photography
![Stockholm (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Stockholm2008-CopyRightJean-MarcCaracci.jpeg)
![Tirana (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Tirana2009-b-CopyRightJean-MarcCaracci.jpeg)
![Vienna (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Vienne2009-CopyRightJean-MarcCaracci.jpeg)
![Berlin (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Berlin 2008 - 01 - CopyRight Jean-Marc Caracci.jpeg)
Catch Caracci's outdoor and indoor exhibition in Balingen, Germany, from 3 July to 6 September 2009
![Tallinn (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Tallinn 2008 - 01 - CopyRight Jean-Marc Caracci.jpeg)
From 10 - 30 September 2009 the exhibition goes to Tallinn, Estonia at the 'House of Europe'
![Warsaw (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Varsovie 2008 - 01 - CopyRight Jean-Marc Caracci.jpeg)
The exhibition will be on in Szczecin, Poland at the 'FotArt' gallery from 2 October to 17 2009
![Ljubljana (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Ljubljana2008-CopyRightJean-MarcCaracci.jpeg)
On the other side of Europe, the Homo Urbanus Europeanus project been selected to appear as a slideshow in the This is Not a Gateway (TINAG) festival in London
![Zagreb (©http://jean.marc.caracci.free.fr)](https://media.cafebabel.com/articles/cafebabel/public/Voyage/September 09/Zagreb2008-CopyRightJean-MarcCaracci.jpeg)
View the current Homo Urbanus Europeanus portfolio at: http://homo.urbanus.free.fr/portfolio/index.html