Raymond Depardon, born in France in 1942, began taking photographs on his family farm in Garet at the age of 12. Apprenticed to a photographer-optician in Villefranche-sur-Saône, he left for Paris in 1958
He joined the Dalmas agency in Paris in 1960 as a reporter, and in 1966 he co-founded the Gamma agency, reporting from all over the world. In 1978 Depardon joined Magnum and continued his reportage work.
Depardon has made eighteen feature-length films and published forty-seven books.
"I’m coming from journalism, but at the same time I’m tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image." 
~ Raymond Depardon
Manhattan Out
Manhattan Out was created in the winter of 1980-81. Raymond Depardon had accompanied a friend to New York and spent his days wandering the big apple. New York or rather New Yorkers impressed him greatly. He often photographed without aiming, the camera slung over his belly. He shot 2 or 3 rolls of film a day for several weeks. It was not until 27 years later that Depardon managed to finally look at these pictures which are a time capsule of life as it was in NYC circa 1980.
Raymond Depardon: Journal de France on Nowness.com
Depardon has made eighteen feature-length films and published forty-seven books.
"I’m coming from journalism, but at the same time I’m tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image." ~ Raymond DepardonManhattan Out
Manhattan Out was created in the winter of 1980-81. Raymond Depardon had accompanied a friend to New York and spent his days wandering the big apple. New York or rather New Yorkers impressed him greatly. He often photographed without aiming, the camera slung over his belly. He shot 2 or 3 rolls of film a day for several weeks. It was not until 27 years later that Depardon managed to finally look at these pictures which are a time capsule of life as it was in NYC circa 1980.
Raymond Depardon – Manhattan Out 
Raymond Depardon – Manhattan Out
Raymond Depardon – Manhattan Out
Raymond Depardon – Manhattan Out
"I don’t regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I’d rather have a good photograph of my father." ~ Raymond Depardon
Raymond Depardon – Manhattan Out
Raymond Depardon – Manhattan Out
Raymond Depardon – Manhattan Out
Raymond Depardon – Manhattan Out
"I don’t regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I’d rather have a good photograph of my father." ~ Raymond DepardonRaymond Depardon – Manhattan Out
Raymond Depardon – Manhattan Out
Raymond Depardon – Manhattan Out
Raymond Depardon – Manhattan Out
Raymond Depardon – Manhattan Out
Raymond Depardon – Manhattan Out
Raymond Depardon – Manhattan Out
Raymond Depardon – Manhattan Out
Raymond Depardon – Manhattan Out
Raymond Depardon – Images from psychiatric hospitals throughout Italy, 1979.
Piedmont region. Collegno near Turin.
Campania region. Naples. Psychiatric hospital. 1979.
Friuli Venezia Giulia region. Trieste. Psychiatric hospital. 1979
Campania region. Naples. Bianchi psychiatric hospital.
Frioul. Trieste. Psychiatric hospital. 1979.
Campania region. Naples. Bianchi psychiatric hospital.
Friuli Venezia Giulia region. Trieste. Psychiatric hospital. 1979
Piedmont region. Collegno near Turin.
Piedmont region. Collegno near Turin.
Venice. San Servolo psychiatric hospital. 1979.
Venice. San Clemente psychiatric hospital. 1979.
Venice. San Servolo psychiatric hospital. 1979.
Venice. San Servolo psychiatric hospital. 1979.
Portrait of Raymond Depardon
