Month: March 2025
Exhibition “L’œil du voyageur” at Villa Tamaris, La Seyne-sur-mer, France
Villa Tamaris presents a large retrospective of Marc Riboud’s work, whose numerous travels and long carrier are shown through more than 150 prints. Loaned by the Guimet – National Museum of Asian Arts, Paris, this selection shows extensively his works in Asia, where he started to travel during the 50s. Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, Japan… but also China where Marc Riboud went numerous times, recording the rapid changes of the country, from the Great Leap Forward to the economic boom of the 2000s and, last but not least, his serie on Huang Shan, the “yellow mountains”, an inspiration for painters and poets.
His reportages on the independences, in Algeria, Subsaharan Africa, and during the Vietnam war are also exhibited, in the vicinity of more contemplative series on Angkor temples and Alaska.
Marc Riboud enjoyed sharing with younger photographers, and a special invitation is made to Caroline Abitbol to present her in depth work on India.
Exhibition “Peace in the making” at Atlas Gallery, London
Titled “Peace in the Making,” this exhibition will showcase a carefully curated selection of Riboud’s most iconic images, each one capturing the essence of peace in a postwar world, desperately trying to rebuild itself in the aftermath of World War II and The Vietnam War.
From his famous image of a young girl holding a flower in front of a line of soldiers during the anti-Vietnam War protests in Washington in 1967 to his more intimate portraits of individuals engaged in acts of compassion, the exhibition offers an unparalleled opportunity to explore the universality of peace. Riboud’s photographs not only tell the stories of these pivotal moments but also remind us of the quiet power of human connection and the beauty of non-violent action.
Address: 49 Dorset Street, London W1U 7NF, United Kingdom
Free entrance, from Monday to Friday 10am to 6pm and on Saturday 11am to 5pm.
For more information: atlasgallery.com/exhibition/marc-riboud
Exhibition “Invitation aux nuages” at Musée du Revermont, France
Two prints of Marc Riboud’s photographs of Huang Shan (the Yellow Mountains in China) are on loan from the Guimet – National Museum of Asian Arts to be exhibited at Musée du Revermont, France.
For more information (in French): patrimoines.ain.fr/n/exposition-en-cours