Atelier Depardon Journal: Raymond Depardon’s photographs, exhibitions and books
La France
For six years Raymond Depardon travelled through France in a camper van, working alone with a large-format camera. The Bourse de Commerce brings around fifty photographs from the journey together in Paris.
View entryReporter / Photographer
At the Église des Dominicains, Visa pour l’Image brought together 84 silver gelatin prints from six decades of reporting.
View entryLe bonheur est dans l’image
The restored chapel at the former Abbaye d’Aniane reopened with more than ninety photographs, from Raymond Depardon’s years as a reporter to rural France.
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Rural
In Mende, all eighty-six prints from Rural were shown together for the first time in France. About half were made in the surrounding Lozère.
View entryLa Gacilly - Un monde tout en couleurs
Colour photographs from Raymond Depardon’s archive came outdoors at La Prairie. A walk through the exhibition, from Santiago to Glasgow.
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EXTREME HOTEL
An Addis Ababa hotel lends its name to a journey through nine colour series at the Pavillon Populaire.
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Bistrots parisiens
Photographs rediscovered in Raymond Depardon’s archive were shown where bistro life unfolds, at the counters and tables of four addresses in the 10th arrondissement.
View entryAuschwitz-Birkenau vu par Raymond Depardon
In the winter of 1979, Raymond Depardon spent two weeks photographing the former camp. In 2025 the Mémorial de la Shoah presented the series in Paris.
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Désert
A book of 250 black-and-white photographs from North Africa and the Middle East, published by the Fondation Cartier with texts by Raymond Depardon and Kamel Daoud.
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Passages
At Galerie Magnum, a man astride the Berlin Wall introduced an exhibition moving between news photographs and the long sequences Raymond Depardon made on the road.
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Instants des Jeux
Eight Olympic photographs by Raymond Depardon meet eight portraits of French athletes made by Simon for the Paris Games.
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Son œil dans ma main
Two visits to Algeria, fifty-eight years apart. Photographs from 1961 and 2019 meet Kamel Daoud’s writing at Les Champs Libres.
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Les Années déclic
Brigitte Bardot by Lake Geneva, Martin Luther King in Paris. Two photographic exhibitions accompanied the book by Raymond Depardon and Gérard Lefort.
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La vie moderne à Shanghai
At the Power Station of Art, Raymond Depardon’s first solo exhibition in China brought together around a hundred photographs of the French countryside and the people who live there.
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Kamel et Raymond
Photographs from Algeria and texts by Kamel Daoud at the Institut du monde arabe, with a film by Claudine Nougaret.
View entryLa vita moderna
Eight photographic series at Triennale Milano, and a short film in which Raymond Depardon revisits the making of his photographs.
View entryUn moment si doux
Colour runs from a portrait of Édith Piaf in 1959 to a blue car in Harar in 2013. The Grand Palais brought these images together in a survey of Raymond Depardon’s work in colour.
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