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
Exhibition “Kolkata to Dhaka, 1971: Marc Riboud’s Lens on History” at the Kolkata Centre for Creativity, India
This exhibition, created in 2021 for the 50th anniversary of Bengladesh’s independance, in collaboration with the Liberation War Museum, Dhaka, and the support of the Alliance française of Dhaka and the French Embassy in Bengladesh, is going to be shown again!
The Alliance française of Bengal and Kolkata Centre for Creativity will show the exhibition, with the support of the French Institute in India.
A conference and discussion with the organizers is scheduled right after the opening ceremony on March 15th.
Adress: Kolkata Centre for Creativity, 777, Anandapur EM Bypass, Kolkata – 700 107
Open from 11am to 7pm everyday except Sunday.
Exhibition “Marc Riboud, Photographs of Vietnam 1966-1976” at Guimet Museum, Paris
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, the association Les amis de Marc Riboud (Friends of Marc Riboud) and Guimet Museum present an exhibiton of prints and documents tracing the work of Marc Riboud in Vietnam, from 1966 to 1976.
Where? Guimet Museum, 6 place d’Iéna, 75016 Paris
Open everyday except Tuesdays, from 10am to 6pm
For more information: guimet.fr/fr/expositions/
« Quand la Chine s’éveille sous l’objectif de Marc Riboud » on Arte TV
The short documentary movie « Quand la Chine s’éveille sous l’objectif de Marc Riboud » (When China arises under the lens of Marc Riboud) has been broadcasted on Arte TV.
The director Renaud Cohen traveled on the traces of Marc Riboud in China. Photographers Xiao Quan and Li Ning, as well as galerist Huge Ling analyse his photographs and enlighten us on the major importance of his work in this country.
“Turning A Glance into Poetry”, retrospective exhibition at the Chengdu Art Museum, China
On December 10th, the retrospective exhibition of Marc Riboud at the Hunan Museum closed its doors. It was a real success, with almost 50,000 visitors in 3 months! And it’s not over yet for the Chinese public, as Marc Riboud’s photographs are now on show at the Chengdu Art Museum, in a redesigned exhibition space.
This exhibition is part of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between France and China. We would like to thank the French Institute in China for its support.
“The countries I love are like friends,” Marc Riboud once wrote, adding: “I like to see them again, to know what they are becoming, how they are changing. So I often go back to China, where everything changes more quickly than elsewhere, even if the attentive eye can see the permanence of things beneath this turbulent surface”.
Where? Chengdu Art Museum, N°388 Jinniuba Road, Jinniu District, Chengdu
For more information: https://www.cdmuseum.com
Book “Chines” now available in Chinese
We are glad to announce the publication in Chinese language of the emblematic book Chines. First published in 2019 by éditions de La Martinière, this extensive book is now published by Gingko in Shanghai. The book traces, over more than 50 years, the numerous stays Marc Riboud had in China, this country with which he forged a particular relationship.
This edition, slightly enriched, offers now to a new audience, especially concerned by the subject, the possibility to discover the beauty and deep transformation of this country, through more than 350 photographs, in black & white and color.
October news : Marc Riboud x Magnum Photos
Square Print Sale by Magnum Photos
Both Magnum and The Photo Society photographers have contributed over 120 signed or estate-stamped prints which are available to purchase as 6×6″ digital c-type prints on Fuji Crystal Archive Matte paper during the one-week online sale.
Find all the details of the sale on the Magnum Photos website
Group exhibition España x Magnum
This photograph by Marc Riboud is on show until October 26th at La Fábrica de Armas de La Vega in Oviedo, Spain. Magnum Photos agency, winner of the Princess of Asturias Award for Concord, is organising a group exhibition on the theme of Spain, featuring 112 prints by 46 photographers.
“West Meets East”, retrospective exhibition at the Hunan Museum, Changsha, China
The Association Les amis de Marc Riboud is delighted to announce the opening of a major retrospective exhibition in China featuring 148 photographs by Marc Riboud on loan from the Guimet Museum. Bringing together all these journeys, from Paris to the Far East and around the world, the exhibition gives pride of place to China.
China has been Marc Riboud’s greatest passion. As soon as he became a photographer, he tried to obtain a visa for this country that he had always dreamed of. Finally, in 1957, he was to be immersed for the first time in the faces and landscapes of China’s countryside and big cities. There he walked for days and days, in silence. To see and observe, because for him, the only way to understand this people, who seemed so far from us, was to look at them.
In the course of his many journeys, a deep, silent bond developed with those he was looking at. This silent communication with the Chinese people was Marc Riboud’s greatest joy. He loved exhibiting in China and would have been delighted with this retrospective in Changsha and Chengdu, which shows once again that the Chinese are still sensitive to this respectful, sympathetic gaze, which seeks to understand, to discover the beauty of form in the disorder of reality, to patiently follow the evolution of a people over more than fifty years.
This exhibition is part of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between France and China. We would like to thank the French Institute of China for its support.
Where? Hunan Museum, N°50 Dongfeng Road, Kaifu District, Changsha
For more information: https://www.hnmuseum.com