ISBN: 978-1511686877

Editions LeS dOiGtS bLeUs

Eye Me Mine Series
Paris, France
April 2015
www.lesdoigtsbleus.com

Cover : Auber, Kliment Nemet

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I never found a companion
that was so companionable
as solitude
Henry David Thoreau
I met Kliment a few years ago in a Russian
teahouse in Coney Island. A common friend
introduced us and when he found out I was
from Paris he asked me what I thought
about Auber station on RER line A.
I just looked at him in amazement and told
him that it was where I realized what I
really wanted to do with my life. He told
me it was the most beautiful and de-
pressing place he had ever seen.

Kliment had spent a year in Paris on a

writing scholarship. Not speaking a word of
French, lost in a city that did not under-
stand him, he often wandered in the sub-
way and RER corridors.
He said he found some kind of melancholic
comfort there, a silent communion with
thousands of passengers, thousands of
lonesome strangers brushing past one
another, gazing at each other, keeping
each other warm in the coldness of life.
This is when the photos in this book were
taken. Kliment was looking for answers,
friends, a place to call home… and he
found solitudes.

Keyvan Sayar
It doesn’t matter much
what you look at
but when you look
What you see.