During an introductory trip to the USA, I photographed cities following the foot steps of Walker Evans and Stephen Shore.

When it came to photographing Canet-en-Roussillon, one of the seaside resorts on the French Pyrenees-Orientales coast, I looked at the town the same way, which is a quest for discreet elegance but also questions about the world.

It is also about my relationship to these places that this work is based. Both places fascinate me, but they are totally foreign to me.

Jean-Claude Liehn | photographer