Raymond Depardon: Rural

Raymond Depardon photographs the gorgeous French countryside in all of its contradictions: shimmering and bleak, lively and secluded

During the 1990s and 2000s, French photographer Raymond Depardon (born 1942) crisscrossed rural France with his 6x9 view camera. In the photographer’s words: “To photograph and film farmers means entering their private lives and creating relationships of trust over many years.”

From this exploration of the agricultural world, he made black-and-white photographs ...