Twelve photographers
PATRICK ZACHMANN
Born 1955, Choisy-le-Roi, France. Lives and works in Paris.
A
freelance photographer since 1976 and member of Magnum Photos since
1990, Patrick Zachmann has dedicated himself to long-term reportages
that bring to light the complexity of the identity and culture of the
communities he investigates.
In 1982 his reportage on the Naples mafia led to the publication of the book Madonna! From 1982 to 1984, concurrently with a project on highway landscapes supported by the French Ministry of Culture, he did a series on immigrant teenagers in the north neighborhoods of Marseille, which was shown in an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou.
After working seven years on a personal project about Jewish identity, Patrick Zachmann published in 1987 his second book Enquête d'identité. In 1989 his story on Tiananmen Square in Beijing was widely published in the international press. Together with other photographers, he created
© Patrick Zachmann / Magnum Photos
Droit de Regard, an association for the protection and promotion of authorship in press photography, which he presided until 1992.Over a period of six years, he pursued an in-depth work on the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world. This gave rise to the publication of W. ou l’œil d’un long nez in 1995, which was hailed by critics, as well as an exhibition that traveled to ten countries in Asia and within Europe. At La Villette, in 1997, Zachmann did an exhibition on Malian emigration, with photographs taken both in France, in Paris and Evry, and in Mali, in Kayes. This project is accompanied by a film about a Malian emigrant’s return to his village.
Between 1996 and 1998, Patrick Zachmann directed the short film La Mémoire de mon père, then his first feature-length film Allers-retour: Journal d’un photographe, both of which have won awards and been featured in numerous film festivals. Allers-retour is about the disappearance of traces of memory, specifically in Chile. He continued to work on Chile post-Pinochet and these photographs have been exhibited and published in the book Chili, Les routes de la mémoire in 2002.
In 2004 the Parc de la Villette commissioned Patrick Zachmann to do a study on the Muslim community in Paris and the Ile-de-France region.
Currently, Patrick Zachmann is doing a project on the world of nighttime in various big cities throughout the world. For this series, Patrick Zachmann has consciously chosen to temporarily distance himself from reportage. Drawn to the artificial lights and colors specific to the night, this body of work is built on impressionist images.
Award (selection):
1982 Prix Air France.
1983 Prix Austerlitz.
1986 Villa Médicis Hors les Murs Grant, French Ministry of Foreign Affaires.
1989 Niepce Award, Gens d’Images.
1992 Art Directors Club Merit Award.
Exhibitions (selection):
1984/1987–1998 Enquête d’identité, Galerie Photo FNAC Forum, Paris, France; Galerie Magnum, Paris, France; Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, France.
1995/1997/2000 L’œil d’un long-nez, traveled to ten countries in Asia; Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan, France; The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK; Sala Municipal, Valladolid, Spain.
1997 Maliens, ici et là-bas, Parc de la Villette, Paris, France.
2001–2004 Chili. Une mémoire en route, Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago de Chile, Chile; Centre d’Histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation, Lyon, France; International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China; Photography Festival, Rome, Italy; Gallery of the French Institute in Barcelona, Spain.
2004 Musulmanes, Musulmans (group exhibition), Parc de La Villette, Paris, France.
2005 Euro Visions (group exhibition), Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
2007 L’Image d’Après (group exhibition), Cinémathèque, Paris, France.
Publications: Madonna!
L’Etoile / Cahiers du Cinéma, Paris, 1983.
Enquête d’identité, un juif à la recherche de sa mémoire. Contrejour, Paris, 1987.
20 ans de rêves. Syria Editions, Paris, 1994.
W. ou l’œil d’un long-nez, W. or the Eye of a Long-Nose. Marval, Paris, 1995.
Maliens, ici et là-bas. Plume, Paris, 1997.
Chili, les routes de la mémoire. Marval, Paris, 2002.
A
freelance photographer since 1976 and member of Magnum Photos since
1990, Patrick Zachmann has dedicated himself to long-term reportages
that bring to light the complexity of the identity and culture of the
communities he investigates. In 1982 his reportage on the Naples mafia led to the publication of the book Madonna! From 1982 to 1984, concurrently with a project on highway landscapes supported by the French Ministry of Culture, he did a series on immigrant teenagers in the north neighborhoods of Marseille, which was shown in an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou.
After working seven years on a personal project about Jewish identity, Patrick Zachmann published in 1987 his second book Enquête d'identité. In 1989 his story on Tiananmen Square in Beijing was widely published in the international press. Together with other photographers, he created
© Patrick Zachmann / Magnum Photos
Droit de Regard, an association for the protection and promotion of authorship in press photography, which he presided until 1992.Over a period of six years, he pursued an in-depth work on the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world. This gave rise to the publication of W. ou l’œil d’un long nez in 1995, which was hailed by critics, as well as an exhibition that traveled to ten countries in Asia and within Europe. At La Villette, in 1997, Zachmann did an exhibition on Malian emigration, with photographs taken both in France, in Paris and Evry, and in Mali, in Kayes. This project is accompanied by a film about a Malian emigrant’s return to his village.
Between 1996 and 1998, Patrick Zachmann directed the short film La Mémoire de mon père, then his first feature-length film Allers-retour: Journal d’un photographe, both of which have won awards and been featured in numerous film festivals. Allers-retour is about the disappearance of traces of memory, specifically in Chile. He continued to work on Chile post-Pinochet and these photographs have been exhibited and published in the book Chili, Les routes de la mémoire in 2002.
In 2004 the Parc de la Villette commissioned Patrick Zachmann to do a study on the Muslim community in Paris and the Ile-de-France region.
Currently, Patrick Zachmann is doing a project on the world of nighttime in various big cities throughout the world. For this series, Patrick Zachmann has consciously chosen to temporarily distance himself from reportage. Drawn to the artificial lights and colors specific to the night, this body of work is built on impressionist images.
Award (selection):
1982 Prix Air France.
1983 Prix Austerlitz.
1986 Villa Médicis Hors les Murs Grant, French Ministry of Foreign Affaires.
1989 Niepce Award, Gens d’Images.
1992 Art Directors Club Merit Award.
Exhibitions (selection):
1984/1987–1998 Enquête d’identité, Galerie Photo FNAC Forum, Paris, France; Galerie Magnum, Paris, France; Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, France.
1995/1997/2000 L’œil d’un long-nez, traveled to ten countries in Asia; Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan, France; The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK; Sala Municipal, Valladolid, Spain.
1997 Maliens, ici et là-bas, Parc de la Villette, Paris, France.
2001–2004 Chili. Une mémoire en route, Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago de Chile, Chile; Centre d’Histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation, Lyon, France; International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China; Photography Festival, Rome, Italy; Gallery of the French Institute in Barcelona, Spain.
2004 Musulmanes, Musulmans (group exhibition), Parc de La Villette, Paris, France.
2005 Euro Visions (group exhibition), Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
2007 L’Image d’Après (group exhibition), Cinémathèque, Paris, France.
Publications: Madonna!
L’Etoile / Cahiers du Cinéma, Paris, 1983.
Enquête d’identité, un juif à la recherche de sa mémoire. Contrejour, Paris, 1987.
20 ans de rêves. Syria Editions, Paris, 1994.
W. ou l’œil d’un long-nez, W. or the Eye of a Long-Nose. Marval, Paris, 1995.
Maliens, ici et là-bas. Plume, Paris, 1997.
Chili, les routes de la mémoire. Marval, Paris, 2002.