Award-winning photographer Horst Hamanns vertical reconnaissance trips through the worlds most beautiful and romantic city have yielded an astonishing array of images in this stunning pictorial tribute to Paris.

Sensitized to vertical perspectives since publishing his best-selling New York Vertical and equipped with a new panoramic camera, he painstakingly set up shot after shot, often finding himself precariously balanced off Notre Dames gargoyles, the balconies of the Pompidou Centre - even the Eiffel Tower.

His stark black and white compositions offer unique vertical reinterpretations of some of Europes most recognizable cityscapes.