When the attic of Notre-Dame de Paris burned, the fire was no longer just a fire. Seen from two kilometres away, through telephoto lenses, it became something else entirely: a disruption of the sky. Les Oiseaux brings together 97 screenshots captured that evening by Lola Raban-Oliva and Jean René Étienne. From their window, Paris dissolved into aerial space — smoke, light, turbulence — almost as if seen through the eyes of birds. Not a cathedral in flames, but a vast convective column rising ove