Les Halles at night inside Baltard pavilion number 3, the Meat Pavilion - le pavillon de la viande. Huge carcasses are hanging on sturdy meat hooks in the main area of the Hall where the great meat rails hold many carcasses in rows. Wearing a cap and sturdy shoes a meat inspector is carefully examining the meat checking it for quality or defects to see if it is damaged or badly cut. Photographer Harold Chapman recalls that a side door in the pavilion was open... "I just slipped in and moved around behind the carcasses of meat hanging on the hooks and when I could see the opportunity poked my head round to see it was quite clear then stepped into the middle of the alley for a second - click - and then moved back. It was the only place I could get in to hide to take that particular aisle." Having remained undiscovered Chapman then decided to take a side view of the aisle as he was "hidden behind the carcasses in another aisle where there was no activity and took the opportunity to poke my camera through the carcasses and take the activity in close-up..." The aisle where the meat inspector was working was reserved for wholesale meat suppliers Dru & Dumont from nearby 5, rue de Turbigo. Quartier des Halles, 1er arrondissement, Right Bank, Paris, France, circa 1960s.