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Gilles Peress, french photograph born in 1946
It’s in 1970, year when he joins Magnum agency, that Gilles Peress starts his career by an intimist portrait of a french mining village. Gilles Peress starts a project on fights in North Irland. «Power in the blood», the book on his work in North Irland is the first opus of his under way project « Hate thy Brother », a cycle of documentaries which shows intolerance and the emergence of nationalism since the post-war years. «Farewell to Bosnia» was the first part of this cycle and «The silence», an book on the Rwanda genocide, was the second. In 1979, Peress travels in Iran in revolution. His book «Telex Iran : in name of the revolution» concerns the fragile relationship between american and iranian culturs during crisis. Gilles Peress is, today, one of the most famous war reporter. Member of the Magnum Agency, Gilles Peress receives several prizes for his work. (Guggenheim foundation, French Foundation, Eugene Smith prize for humanitary photo).
A book, in Photo Poche collection, prefaced by the autor, goes with the exhibition.