RAYMOND DEPARDON - LA CHAMBRE - NUMBERED & SIGNED

French photographer Raymond Depardon was born and raised on the Le Garet farm, near the banks of the Saône River and 500 meters from the Paris-Lyon freeway. The house dates back to the sixteenth century, and it was there he took his first photographs, before leaving the family home to pursue this passion. In 1994 Depardon published the celebrated book on the farm, La ferme du Garet, and in 2020, as a tribute to the place the farm continues to hold in his life, he returned to the work he has made there to create a new book, a journey through 34 color images.

The large-format photographs, taken using long exposures, transform each image into a singular scene, a silent passage within and around the farm. The smallest details, sometimes trivial in appearance, become his photographic subjects: a chair, a table, wallpaper patterns. Each image and the elements within it bring the viewer into the photographer’s memory, rendering the farm a locus in a permanent tension between past and present.