All 693 images in a series created by Luc Delahaye over several years using details from photographs cut out of newspapers, marking a turning point in the evolution of this great photographer’s work, which bridges documentary and artistic practices.
The practice of cutting out photographs from the newspaper and using them as work documents, meant to feed a reflection or prompt a departure, gradually drifted from Luc Delahaye's initial purpose and took on a life of its own. It became a proliferating, endless accumulation which carried a particular vision of the world, a vision grounded as much in the experience of a spectator of the news of his time as in that of a photographer engaged with reality. The work, spanning the years 2006-2012, was completed in 2025 and consists of 693 prints.
A prominent war photojournalist in the 1990s and a former member of the Magnum agency, Luc Delahaye (born 1962 in Tours, France) is part of a generation of photographers who re-examined the articulation between documentary practices and an artistic dimension.
