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Jo Brunenberg–Magasin Fermé

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A visual record of the rapid disappearance of the individual trade shops and small businesses in France.
The emergence of supermarkets marked the gradual closure of local specialized shops in French town centers.
A generation of individual small shopkeepers and experienced craftsmen professionals is disappearing.
Individually designed storefronts are boarded up and are gradually vanishing from the cityscape

Jo Brunenberg (b. 1949, Netherlands)

Photographer and graphic designer Jo Brunenberg is intrigued by the imagination and individuality that is present in the design of the French local shops as well as in the architectural fantasies that can be seen in the construction of French water towers. Caused by new developments individually stylized storefronts and water towers are disappearing and now often are replaced by dull and more uniform designed buildings.

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