Luc Delahaye, Facing the Fragments of Reality

Photojournalist turned artist, Luc Delahaye confronts us with the tragedy of the world in photographic tableaux that are as imposing as they are unsettling. The Jeu de Paume in Paris is devoting an important monograph to him — the first one in France since 2005.

“I declared myself a ‘war photographer’ at 22 and, seventeen years later, an ‘artist.’ This way of announcing my colors each time may have been a way of forbidding myself to ever turn back, a way of forcing myself to remain faithful to my vow,” Luc D...

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