Alix & Camille, Paris

Kids have this amazing ability to communicate without language. When we met Alix and Camille it hardly mattered that Tully and I didn't speak much French and they spoke no English. We made it work for the three days that we stayed with them and their lovely mother, Dorothée in Montmartre. I took these photos one afternoon when we were just hanging out in their apartment between site-seeing and croissant-tasting on our first visit to Paris last year. It was Tully's dream to go. Even though I am fairly well traveled, remarkably I had never been to Paris in my previous six or seven visits to Europe so it was special we got to experience it for the first time together. I love the ordinariness of these images. It was such a simple day really—eating ice cream, drinking wine on the balcony at sunset, watching a movie, playing dress-up—and this is exactly what that day felt like. 

Shot with Fuji x100t and iPhone 6