Fine Print: Pingyao, 2001 Paper size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm)

Fine Print: Pingyao, 2001 Paper size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm)Marc Riboud was born in 1923 in Saint Genis Laval near Lyon. In 1937 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris he took his first photos using a pocket Kodak given to him by his father for his 14th birthday. In 1944 he joined the resistance in the Vercors. From 1945 1948 he studied engineering at the Ecole Centrale in Lyon and started to work. Three years after he made the decision to become a photographer. In 1953 his photograph of a painter on the

he explored public rituals that cut across class and location

which came to be known as Give Us the Ballot

In History by Susan Meiselas is a reflective monograph exploring how photographs evolve in meaning over time

“I’ve taken many pictures on that subject in the natural course of my favourite pastime…photography

It is a land of great beauty

When a family friend lent him a camera

in England’s Midlands

Shot through glass

she received the Kraszna-Krausz Book Award for In Retrospect

he became the first contract photographer for the Observer

” reflected Hurn

the image turns an ordinary storm into something cinematic—part documentation