15 June 2024 – 5 January 2025 · Les Champs Libres, Rennes

Son œil dans ma main

Pedestrians cross a striped roadway seen from above — Boulevard Bugeaud, seen from the Hôtel Aletti. Algiers, 1961. © Raymond Depardon / Magnum Photos.

Looking down from the Hôtel Aletti in Algiers in 1961, Raymond Depardon photographed pedestrians crossing boulevard Bugeaud. In Algiers in 2019, the camera is back at street level. Two young women stand hand in hand below the trees.

Raymond Depardon first worked in Algeria as a young reporter before independence. On returning in 2019 he met the writer Kamel Daoud. Their photographs and texts became a book and then an exhibition. In Rennes, the presentation occupied the Anita Conti room. Elsewhere at Les Champs Libres visitors could see Rural, while the Frac Bretagne showed Raymond Depardon’s photographs of six Olympic Games.

Algeria, 1961 and 2019

Two young women holding hands beneath trees in Algiers — Algiers, 2019. © Raymond Depardon / Magnum Photos.

Figures on a flight of steps — Algeria, 1961. © Raymond Depardon / Magnum Photos.

Two figures on a street corner — Algeria, 1961. © Raymond Depardon / Magnum Photos.

The exhibition at Les Champs Libres