A lot like Raymond Depardon, French photographer Blaise Arnold pays tribute to nostalgic, forgotten and almost abandoned places of France. Through his series Red Lights, he captures the bistrots, brasseries, troquets et and deserted bars, of Paris and the suburbs with wet asphalte, at sunrise or night, with only the lights of the city and the bar’s neon.

Le Blues Bar, Bondy.

Rendez-vous des chauffeurs, Gennevilliers (Hauts-de-Seine).

Le Madrigale, Saint-Denis.

Les Sports. Avenue de Verdun, Ivry-sur-Seine.

Lilly’s Café. Dalle Chinatown. Paris XIII.

Café de la Gare, Ivry-sur-Seine.

Le Balto, Nanterre.

Le Cantal, boulevard de Charonne, Paris XX.

Croas Hir bar. Plouvorn.

Au Chemin de Fer. Chilly-Mazarin.

L’Ariel, Paris XX.

Le Métro, rue des Pyrénées, Paris XX.

Le Montana, Malakoff.

Chez Pierre. Saint-Ouen.

Le Gallia, Gentilly.

Aux Folies, Paris XX.

Le Maryland, Paris XIII.

Le Fontenoy, Paris XVIII.

Le 1930, Paris XI.

Le Tabac du Parc, Le Perreux-sur-Marne.

Café Laumière, Paris Paris XIX.

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