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Marc Riboud
A Wanderer Through Asia
7 November 2015 – 16 January 2016

“I am a wanderer rather than a traveller”

“I often think that I am not made for travelling.”. Who would believe it of Marc Riboud, the famous photographer whose images have made their way around the world? He prefers to say that he “has seen the world”… Having just signed with Magnum, the famous photo agency founded by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa, Riboud was quick to take off on his travels again. In 1955, he embarked upon his initial trip to Asia: India, where he stayed a full year; then China, an exceptional stay where he happened to be the only Western photographer at the historical turning point of the Great Leap Forward. These excitingw moments would be followed by stirring reports from Vietnam and Cambodia.

As a free man, curious about everything, a “wanderer” rather than a “traveller” and “sensitive to the beauty of the world,” in his own words, Marc Riboud has always wanted to “see” life’s little pleasures: street life, a portrait taken unexpectedly, a misty landscape as well as a thousand of other things. In search of “the most intense life,” he keeps photographing “with tremendous pleasure.”

Riboud chose Asia because, as a champion of the freedom of man and an advocate for the beauty of the world, he found his most heart-breaking images there.

The exhibition offers a stroll through Asia, focusing on approximately twenty photographs taken throughout Marc Riboud’s career in India, Cambodia, Nepal, China and Vietnam. Above all, as he claimed, “my aim is to savor life at 1/125 of a second.”