This book presents a curated selection of photographs from Plants of Babylon, an ongoing project of daily snapshots initiated in 2006 by François Decobecq.
The series celebrates the spontaneous vitality of ruderal plants encountered in urban settings, observed along the course of travels and movements.
Finding balance in the margins of the city, these plants manage to exist in places where they are least expected. The vegetal world takes root within urban space under unfavourable, and at times hostile, conditions.
This photographic work is guided less by the appearance of the plants than by a desire to share the quiet beauty of their unassuming presence in the streets.
Self-published in 2018, this publication brings together a selection of more than 200 photographs illustrating the diversity of plant life found across different cities.
