Go behind the scenes with Tomas van Houtryve as he shares his in-the-field experience of documenting the restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral for National Geographic's February 2022 cover story.
Tomas van Houtryve is a Belgian-American photographer, artist, and filmmaker whose work merges investigative journalism, philosophy, and metaphor. His work can be found in the International Center for Photography Museum in New York, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in North Carolina, the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, and the Baudoin Lebon gallery in Paris.
We recently spoke with van Houtryve to learn more about his first National Geographic cover.
The massive blaze at Notre Dame Cathedral in 2019 devastated one of the most notable monuments in Paris, placing it at the heart of the national conversation in France in a way that had not been seen since Victor Hugo wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame in the
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