The first retrospective in 20 years in Paris dedicated to the French photographer Luc Delahaye, an artist who fuses photojournalism and contemporary art. After a career as a war reporter in the 1990s and a collaboration with the Magnum agency, Delahaye oriented his practice towards large format and museum exhibition, maintaining a strong connection to the documentary language. His images, often monumental in size and made in intense colors, address events and scenarios ranging from the war in Iraq and Ukraine to the crises in Haiti and Libya, to international conferences such as those of OPEC and COP. Delahaye's photographs are distinguished by their meticulous composition: some are unique shots, others are the result of complex digital processes that combine dozens of fragments into a single image. In each case, the goal is a representation of reality that does not seek to demonstrate, but to show, leaving room for a "silent unity" between observer and subject. The exhibition includes around forty works, a video installation and new documentary creations made specifically for the occasion and offers an overview of over twenty-five years of Delahaye’s work.
