These photographs are a part of the project "Mademoiselles" - intimate portraits of Parisians. Being a foreigner in Paris and feeling slightly de-rooted, I tried to get closer to the things and people around me by studying and understanding them, and that is by photographing them. Thus I started to make portraits of young Parisian women, who I first felt a little distant, and who I found quite different from myself and also different from what I had thought they would be. My wish was to explore what hides behind their public behaviour and how they really are when they are in their own intimacy. I photograph my friends, as well as strangers met in the street, nude, at their homes.