"Setting out to lose himself in each place, the resulting photographs show unguarded images of people going about their everyday lives" The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/gallery/2010/apr/23/raymond-depardon-cities-photography-exhibition#/?picture=361809760&index=9
Raymond Depardon: A personal vision of France
Raymond Depardon is famous for his illustrated reports on socially deprived inner city areas, for his numerous books presenting images interwoven in the text, but also for his films about everyday life in a changing society. The artist definitely knows no limits. Film-maker as well as photographer, he never sacrifices ethics to images.
A traveller through and through, Depardon set himself the task which has been leading him around the country since 2004. According to the seasons and quality of light, he wishes to portray regions that everyone would long to see « as much as » unattractive places.
He focuses on the consequences of urban development in the second half of the 20th century: factories for sale on the periphery of cities surrounded by dozens of car parks, peri-urban areas that swallow up small cities and villages, overexploitation of coastal and high mountain areas...
« I visited very different places, with very different stories. I’ve made it a rule to keep a distance from the subject which allowed me to consider regionalistic specificities and try to tell our common story of everyday life. »
The main features of Depardon’s full of empathy former works were the contrast effects of black and white photographs and the use of a dynamic depth of field. This time, he preferred frontality and the use of the photographic chamber, colour, and a soft, neutral and unique light. The photographer sometimes preferred landscapes to human beings; however, it is a way« to focus on human influence which modified landscapes throughout history. »
Taken from online article: http://www.bnf.fr/en/cultural_events/anx_exhibitions/f.france_depardon_eng.html
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