Men and women are lying on the ground, taking cover from gunfire coming from the rooftops. The close-up framing conveys the tension of the moment and the vulnerability of the civilians; this photograph belongs to a series taken by Jahan during the Liberation of Paris in 1944.
“As a member of the Underground Press Committee, I found myself mobilized on August 20, 1944, under the orders of a loudmouthed journalist who, the day before, had awarded himself two lieutenant's stripes. ‘You must be wherever there's shooting,’ an order made all the easier by the fact that there was shooting from all sides.” (P. Jahan, Objectif)