Every other year, Photoquai pops up on the banks of the Seine, outside the Musée Branly, and displays the works of contemporary, international photographers who have not normally been seen in France before.

For each Photoquai Biennale, an artistic director is nominated to run the project to select photographers from around the world and pull the selections together into a uniform whole that is displayed in giant form in this beautiful setting.

In 2013, Frank Kalero and 8 curators on the ground in 8 different countries selected forty photographers.  Under the theme Regarde-Moi (Look at Me), each series of images focussed on people, and the objects, places and architecture that relate to those people.

The series featured here in my quick look back at 2013, had people around the globe decant their rooms into the outside world.

The images were so immediate and striking that I felt a little uncomfortable taking such a close look at people’s lives, but they look happy enough showing off their belongings and it is an incredible way to compare a range of lives and cultures.

I am certainly making this small, international exhibition an excuse for a regular visit to Paris – it (and I) will be back in September 2015.

Linked to Travel Photo Monday and Ruby Tuesday.