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Exhibition “Forty years around the world” at KLV Art Project, Vienna, Austria

from May 28th to November 2nd 2025

This exhibition will show for the very first time in Austria the work of Marc Riboud, featuring over 40 black & white photographs taken around the world between 1953 and 1995. From one country and one period to another, the exhibition will underline the poetry, humanity and beauty of his photographs, some of which have become iconic ones such as “the Painter on the Eiffel Tower”. Others will be on show for the first time especially a serie of vintages of Prague in the 70s-80s.

Beijing, 1965. These windows overlook Liulichang, the street of antique and curio shops. Here, during the Cultural Revolution, people were expected to hand over their jewelry to the state, receiving nothing in exchange.

Exhibition curated by KLV Art Project
Adress: Forum am Schillerplatz, Robert-Stolz-Platz 3, 1010 Vienna
Opening hours: 28 May to 4th July and 15 September to 2nd November:
Free entrance, from Tuesday to Friday: 10am to 3:30pm and on Saturday: noon to 6pm
For more information: klv-artprojects.com

Exhibition “L’œil du voyageur” at Villa Tamaris, La Seyne-sur-mer, France

from May 24th to September 21st 2025

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 “Mais la photographie continue !”, invitation to Le Réverbère gallery by Présence(s) Photographie festival, Montélimar, France

from May 24th to June 8th 2025

After “Histoire(s) sans fin”, their closure exhibition presented in their gallery in Lyons, Le Réverbère Gallery has been invited by the festival to imagine this new exhibition “Mais la photographie continue !”
A new page written with the photographers who wished to participate as a manifesto of the gallery’s choices and their love for photography.

The exhibition gathers the works by 18 photographers: Laure Abouaf, Frédéric Bellay, Arièle Bonzon, Pierre Canaguier Thomas Chable, Serge Clément, Jacques Damez, François Deladerrière, André Forestier, Lionel Fourneaux, Rip Hopkins, William Klein, Géraldine Lay, Baudoin Lotin, Julien Magre, Philippe Pétremant, Loïc Xavier and Marc Riboud.

 

Exhibition presented at Centre d’art Espace Chabrillan
127 rue Pierre Julien, 26200 Montélimar
For more information: presences-photographie.fr

Group exhibition “Tatouage. Histoires de la Méditerranée” at Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France

from May 17th to September 28th 2025

Several photographs by Marc Riboud are presented in this exhibition created by the Museums of Marseille, which proposes a deep study of the practice of tattoo in the Mediterranean world, from the antiquity to nowadays. Paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos, fashion and everyday life objects punctuate the visit, associating the scientific inputs of history, history of art, archeology, ethnology and anthropology, untill evoking the actual ranges of Marseille tattoos and its place in pop culture imaginary.

 

Adress: Centre de la Vieille Charité, 2 rue de la Charité, 13002 Marseille, France
Open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 9am to 6pm
For more information (in French): vieille-charite-marseille.com

Exhibition “Peace in the making” at Atlas Gallery, London

from May 2nd to June 21st 2025

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

Magnum Photos Square Print Sale

from April 21st to 27th, 2025

We are happy to inform you of our participation to the “Magnum Square Print Sale”, this time on the theme of “Spectacle”, with this photograph taken by Marc Riboud in Japan, 1958.

During a few days only, until Sunday 27th of April, a choice of the greatest images by Magnum photographers are available for sale in a small format (6x6inches), at the price of 110$.

For more information about Marc Riboud’s photograph:
www.magnumphotos.com/shop/products/

 

Exhibition “Invitation aux nuages” at Musée du Revermont, France

from March 15th to July 14th 2025

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

from March 15th to March 29th 2025

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

from March 5th till May 12th 2025

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

Replay available till May 18th 2025

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.

Click here to watch the movie