Jean-Pierre Laffont: “My Life Has Been a True Epic”

At 90, Jean-Pierre Laffont looks back on more than half a century of photojournalism. At the Visa pour l’Image festival, an exhibition titled “Photographing in Total Freedom” brings together his most striking images, reflections of a life defined by independence and testimony.

People say Jean-Pierre Laffont was everywhere. At the right time. That is the strength of his photographs, of his career, and of his archives today: countless images taken across the globe, documenting major social and political events of the 20th ce...

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