Gary Zuercher has been photographing professionally for over 30 years. At the same time he has started and built a number of quite successful businesses, he is also a commercial pilot with more than 2,000 hours of flight time.  Starting in 2008 Zuercher began photographing the Paris bridges on film, in black and white. He spent five years shooting the bridges at night and another year in historical research for his book. He divides his time between homes in Paris and Washington, DC with his wife Dominique who is French.