Raymond DEPARDON

Born in 1942 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France.
Lives and works in Clamart, France.

Raymond Depardon has directed 21 feature films and published more than 60 books. The youngest son of a family of farmers, he began photographing his parents' farm at the age of 12. In 1958, he moved to Paris and joined the Dalmas agency as a reporter, before co-founding Gamma in 1966. He has been a member of the Magnum agency since 1979. In 1998, he undertook a long photographic and cinematographic work devoted to the French rural world. He was awarded the Louis-Delluc prize with La vie moderne in 2008. In 2011, he will exhibit his four years of work on the roads entitled La France de Raymond Depardon at the BnF. In 2013, the exhibition Un moment si doux is presented at the Grand Palais in Paris and in 2014 at the Mucem in Marseille. His latest film, 12 jours, was released in theaters at the end of 2017. The exhibition Depardon USA 1968-1999, was presented at the Rencontres d'Arles 2018.

Raymond DEPARDON
Born in 1942 at Villefranche-sur-Saône, France. Lives and work in Clamart, France.

1958
He becomes Louis Foucherand’s assistant.
1960
He enters the Dalmas Agency. Covers the Algerian War. Becomes, in five years, the main reporter of the agency.
1966
He co-founded the Gamma agency.
1978
He leaves Gamma and and joins Magnum.
1981
He co-founded Double D copyright films.
1992
He co-founded the Palmeraie et Désert film production company.
2002
Absorption of Double D copyright films by Palmeraie et Désert.
2010
He co-founded the BAL. He his its president.


SHORT FILMS

2019
- Mon Arbre.
2014
- 8ème étage.
2011
- Au Bonheur des Maths, co-directed with Claudine Nougaret.
2010
- La France.
2008
- Donner la parole, co-directed with Claudine Nougaret.
2007
- Cinéma d’été.
2005
- Quoi de neuf au Garet ?
2003
- Chasseurs et Chamans.
2000
- Déserts.
1998
- Bolivia.
1997
- Amour.
1996
- Malraux.
1995
- La Prom’.
- Parole d’appelés.
1994
- Montage, co-directed with Claudine Nougaret.
1993
- Cartagena.
- Face à la mer.
1990
- Contacts.
- Une histoire très simple.
1988
- le Petit Navire, co-directed with Claudine Nougaret.
1985
- New York, NY.
1982
- Piparsod.
1980
- 10 min. de silence pour John Lennon.
1976
- Tibesti too.
1973
- Yémen.
1969
- Ian Palach.


FEATURE FILMS

2002
- 1974, Une partie de campagne
1977
- Numéros Zéro


FILMS

2017
- 12 jours.
2016
- Les habitants.
2013
- 8ème étage, made for the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris, France.
2012
- Journal de France, co-directed with Claudine Nougaret.
2008
- Profils Paysans : La Vie Moderne.
2005
- Profils Paysans : Le Quotidien.
2004
- 10e Chambre, Instants d’Audience.
2002
- Un Homme sans l’Occident, adaptation of the Diego Brosset’s novel.
2001
- Profils paysans : L’Approche.
1997
- Paris.
1996
- Afriques : comment ça va avec la douleur ?
1995
- Délits Flagrants.
1990
- La captive du désert.
1987
- Urgences, co-directed with Claudine Nougaret.
1985
- Empty quater, une Femme en Afrique.
1984
- Les années déclics, co-directed with Roger Ikhlef.
1983
- Faits Divers.
1981
- Reporters.
1978
- San Clemente
1977
- Les Révolutionnaires du Tchad.


COMMISSION

2012
- Official portrait of the President of the Republic, François Hollande.


PHOTOGRAPHIC SERIES

2004-2009
- La France de Raymond Depardon.
1984
- Participate at the Photographic Mission of the DATAR.
1977
- Les Révolutionnaires du Tchad.


PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

2022
- Glasgow, RX Gallery, Paris, France.
2021
- La Terre des Paysans, Bram, France.
2020
- Raymond Depardon, Photographie Militaire 1962-1963, Army Health Service Museum, Paris, France.
2019
- Errances, Cultural Space Le Parvis, Pau, France.
2018
- Raymond Depardon Alpes Maritimes, Lympia Gallery, Nice, France
- Depardon USA 1968-1999, International Meetings of Photography, Arles, France.
- Paysages d’architecture, French Museum of the Playing Cards, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.
- Correspondance New Yorkaise 1981-2017, Magnum Photo, Paris, France.
- Japon 2016-2017, The New Clear Room, Paris, France.
- Intérieur/Extérieur, Galerie RX, Paris, France.
2017
- Traverser, Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, Paris, France.
- Depardon Tokyo 1964-2016, Chanel Nexus Hall, Tokyo, Japan.
- Un moment si doux, Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Un moment si doux, Banco do Brasil Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Los Franceses - Les Habitants, CICUS, Seville, Spain.
2016
- La France de Raymond Depardon, Minitry of Culture, Lima, Peru.
2015
- La France de Raymond Depardon, Banco de la República Museum, Bogotá, Colombia.
- Manhattan Out / Correspondance New Yorkaise, Catherine et André Hug Gallery, Paris, France.
2014
- La France de Raymond Depardon, EPM Library, Medellin, Colombia.
- Un moment si doux, Mucem, Marseille, France.
- Depardon : Berlin, French Institute of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
- New York, Jorg Brockmann Space, Geneva, Switzerland.
2013
- Un moment si doux, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
- La France de Raymond Depardon, Fine Arts Museum, Caracas, Venezuela.
- Villes, Le Carreau, Cergy-Pontoise, France.
2010
- La France de Raymond Depardon, National Library of France, Paris, France.
2007
- Villes/Cities/Städte, Museum of Photography, Berlin, Germany.
2006
- Photographies de personnalités Politiques, European House of Photography, Paris, France.
- Racconti della Realta, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy.
- La Ferme du Garet, Swiss Museum of the Photographic Camera, Vevey, Switzerland.
2005
- Raymond Depardon, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2004
- 7x3, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris, France.
- San Clemente, Carmelite Cultural Center, Langon, France.
- Vietnam 1972-1992, Asian Arts Museum, Nice, France.
2003
- Un homme sans l’Occident, Fnac Montparnasse, Paris, France.
2000
- Détours, European House of Photography, Paris, France.


RETROSPECTIVES

2018
- Un moment si doux, Banco do Brasil Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2017
- Raymond Depardon, Les 3 Luxembourg cinema, Paris, France.


THEATRICAL ADAPTATION

1998
- La ferme du Garet, directed by Marc Feld at the Manufacture des Œillets at Ivry-sur-Seine, then follows a tour in France and Canada.


COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

2023
- Sous le ciel, Raymond Depardon, Nicolas Tubéry, Maison des Arts Georges et Claude Pompidou, Cajarc, France.
2020
- Dégager l’écoute, National Library of France, Paris, France.
2019
- Nous les Arbres, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris, France.
- Striking Moments in Photojournalism, Photobastei, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Fil Noir, European House of Photography, Paris, France.
2017
- Highlights : la Collection de la Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea.
- In Our Time, Magnum Print Room, London, United Kingdom.
- Magnum Analog Recovery, The BAL, Paris, France.
- Look at Lebanon 1970-2016, House of Photography, Toulon, France.
2016
- Le Grand Orchestre des Animaux, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris, France.
- An Ideal for Leaving, Huxley-Parlour, London, United Kingdom.
- Strange and Familiar, Barbican Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
2015
- Autoportraits, Les Douches Gallery, Paris, France.
2012
- La Photographie en France 1950-2000, European House of Photography, Paris, France.
2011
- Mathématiques, un dépaysement soudain, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris, France.
2009
- Terre natale commence ici, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2008
- Terre natale commence ici, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris, France.


AWARDS

2011
- Prolemy Prize for Geography.
2009
- Nomad’s Prize.
- International Planet Albert-Kahn Prize.
2008
- Louis Delluc Prize.
2000
- Nadar Prize.
1995
- César Award for the Best Documentary.
- Joris-Ivens Prize.
1991
- National Grand Prize for Photography.
1985
- César Award for Best Short Film.
1981
- César Award for the Best Documentary.
1973
- Robert Capa Gold Medal.


PUBLICATIONS

2020
- Raymond Depardon, Photographie Militaire 1962-1963, ed. Gallimard.
- Raymond Depardon, Rural, ed. Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris.
2018
- Depardon USA, ed. Xavier Barral.
2017
- Traverser, ed. Xavier Barral.
2016
- Les habitants, ed. Seuil.
2015
- Adieu Saigon, ed. Seuil.
2014
- Le désert, allers retours, ed.Éric Hazan.
- Méditerranée, ed. Xavier Barral.
- Berlin, fragments d’une histoire allemande, ed. Seuil.
2013
- Manicomio, ed. Steidl.
2010
- La France de Raymond Depardon, ed. Seuil.
2009
- Paysans, ed. Points.
2008
- La Terre des Paysans, ed. Seuil.
2006
- La solitude heureuse du voyageur : précédé de Notes, éditions Points.
2003
- 06 Alpes Maritimes, ed. Xavier Barral/ Magnum Photos.
2000
- Détours, ed. Maison de la Photographie.
- Errances, ed. Points.
1995
- La ferme du Garet, ed. Actes Sud.
1978
- Notes, ed. Arfuyen.
1973
- Chili, with David Burnett et Chas Gerretsen, ed. Gamma.


ADAPTATION FROM HIS WORK

2009
- Des gens, directed by Zabou Breitman, free adaptation of Faits Divers and Urgences, at the Angoulême Theater, won with two Molière Awards.