Beautiful exhibition, fascinating photographs by a very empathetic photographer: Marie-Laure de Decker - @ Maison Européenne de la Photographie / MEP
Marie-Laure de Decker — L’image comme engagement
The Marie-Laure de Decker exhibition, on show at the MEP from 4 June to 28 September 2025, is the first major retrospective devoted to this major figure in photojournalism. By rehabilitating her work, the MEP is paying tribute to her by highlighting her vision and approach, which are capable of bringing together history and intimacy, and which have a particular resonance today.
She went from Paris to Vietnam, South Africa, Chad, Yemen and Jordan...
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Marie-Laure de Decker (1947 – 2023) was a French photographer and photojournalist whose career spanned more than forty years. She documented numerous armed conflicts as well as the major social and political upheavals of the twentieth century.
Born in colonised Algeria, she also grew up in Côte d'Ivoire and was sent to study art in France by her parents, where she started modelling and met artists, authors and photographers, including Roland Topor, who she lived with for a while.
She became renowned for her emblematic portraits of figures from the world of culture – such as Marcel Duchamp, Federico Fellini, Françoise Sagan and Catherine Deneuve – as well as political figures such as Presidents François Mitterrand, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing and Nelson Mandela.
From the 1970s, she started working abroad notably for the Gamma agency.
Her most memorable reports include the Vietnam War, the anti-colonial struggle in Chad, apartheid in South Africa and the resistance to dictatorship in Chile.
From the 1980s onwards, she broadened her creative field to include fashion and film photography.
From the 1980s onwards, she broadened her creative field to include fashion and film photography.
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