Traveling to Paris France 2019 to photograph?

4 years 9 months ago #650930 by Cristy Fields
We are thinking about heading to France in August.  In terms of riots, and all the other stuff that has been happening over there, would you consider Paris a safe place to bring your family?

I'll be photographing things, however we would like to bring our family too. 


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4 years 9 months ago #650932 by Nikon Shooter
That is a hard question to answer.

I love France (my mother language is French Canadian) and I had
good experiences and not so good ones. The not so good ones are
the ones that will ruin the trip and they may vary very much in terms
of type, gravity and repetitions.

As a working pro, I have to go there alone +/- four times a year and
I need a lot of attention over my gear… I imagine that such level of
attention is hardly sustainable when with kids.

If your question was about regions in France, I would have the same
ambivalent answer — the same would apply to Italy, Spain etc where
I had great times and… there are risks everywhere.

I will retire most probably in central Europe because I feel safe here.

You have to adopt behaviours that will make your family less of a pos-
sible target like in certain neighbourhoods, situations. Many friends and
myself had crazy cool times there but it takes just one incident.

Light is free… capturing it is not!
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4 years 9 months ago #650937 by Kate Stailey
France is one of the most beautiful countries on this planet.  IMO, if around main tourist areas, avoid rally's and demonstrations.  All else is fair game.  


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