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ETHIOPIA. Ogaden region. Town of Harer. 1995. © Raymond Depardon/Magnum Photos
Raymond Depardon’s work has often explored native lands, and, particularly, the world of farmers, giving value to speaking and listening. His capacity to combine both the political and the poetic is clear to anyone familiar with his work. He is an exceptional artist, and his photographs capture the life of everyday human beings. Whether his subjects are the prostitutes of Saigon or small children in Ethiopia, or the veiled men of the Sahara desert or passersby in bustling cities such as New York, Cairo or La Paz, Depardon does not bother to strive for aesthetic effect or anecdote. Instead he relies on his miraculous ability to be right at home wherever his camera accompanies him.
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"The
photographer is filled with doubt. Nothing will soothe him."
Raymond
Depardon, born in France in 1942, began taking photographs on his
family farm in Garet at the age of 12. Apprenticed to a
photographer-optician in Villefranche-sur-Saône, he left for
Paris in 1958.
He joined the Dalmas agency in Paris in 1960 as a reporter, and in 1966 he co-founded the Gamma agency, reporting from all over the world. From 1974 to 1977, as a photographer and film-maker, he covered the kidnap of a French ethnologist, François Claustre, in northern Chad. Alongside his photographic career, he began to make documentary films: 1974, Une Partie de Campagne and San Clemente.
Raymond Depardon joined Magnum Photos in 1978 and became a full Member in 1979.
