Désert
Sixty years in the desert
Raymond Depardon first travelled to the Sahara in 1960. He returned over the following decades as a reporter, a traveller and a filmmaker. In Chad, the journeys that took him to the Tibesti in the 1970s were followed much later by work in the Djourab. The two photographs shown here were made there in 2001.
Published by the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in June 2025, Désert brings together 250 black-and-white photographs made in eleven countries in North Africa and the Middle East. Raymond Depardon and the Algerian writer Kamel Daoud contribute texts. Atelier Dyakova designed the 344-page volume.
