Triennale Milano Unveils La vita moderna, Raymond Depardon’s largest exhibition to date

On show until April 2022, comprising three hundred photographs and two films, La vita moderna is Depardon’s largest exhibition to date. Specifically created for Milan in collaboration with Fondation Cartier, the exhibition explores Depardon’s fascinating career, spanning continents, cultures and peoples. Under the general direction of Hervé Chandès, La vita moderna was conceived with the participation of artist Jean-Michel Alberola and is set against a backdrop designed by Théa Alberola. 

Depardon is a photographer-filmmaker who travels the world, giving a voice to the people he finds along the way. Casting a humanist gaze on the world, Depardon is constantly searching for the ideal distance from his subjects. He approaches them with discretion and humility, showing each landscape as the site of a human experience through the lens of a camera or camcorder.

Whether he is following a politician in an electoral campaign or a farmer in his daily routine, Depardon is able to stand back and make room for his subject, without chasing the defining moment and preferring the real to the sensational. This experience of the world, first expressed through his photojournalism, then through a more personal photographic series, gives him a special place in the history of photography and cinema.