The Radical Hope of Patti Smith

The Radical Hope of Patti Smith

Pieter Hugo

Patti Smith isn’t writing. “It won’t last that long,” she tells me. “But it’s been a while. It’s been a few weeks. And I’m in a state of that nothingness.”

We’re drinking tea at a table in her hotel room in Paris. She pauses as church bells ring out from across the Seine, reaching us t