What happens when you merge a dancer with a love for photography? A series of photos that challenges, perplexes and impresses on many levels.

Franco-American Mickael Jou, who I had the pleasure of getting to know when he lived in Paris (he is now based in Berlin), is a trained dancer and had developed a habit of dancing ballet and modern dance throughout Paris. As you can imagine, this attracted the curious eyes of tourists and locals who regularly stopped to photograph and film his mini street spectacles. It was upon seeing the photos taken of his freewheeling ways that he considered staging the photos himself. He bought a camera, studied the instruction manual and released what appears to be an innate gift for the art of photography, creating a poetic series of self-portraits that he has collated into a 365 Project he predicts will take the next three years to complete.

A sampling of these Paris images are shown below. As much as I love them all, I’m particularly drawn to the mystery of the very last shot. And you?